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Chris Hadfield holding first public talk on Thursday after returning from ISS

, May 14th 2013 Discuss [0]

Astronaut Chris Hadfield, as well as the rest of the Expedition 35 team, returned safely to Earth last night after spending 5 months on the International Space Station. While aboard the ISS, Hadfield tweeted many photos of Earth from his perspective and even uploaded many YouTube videos that described life on the ISS. He'll be giving his first public talk since returning to Earth on Thursday, May 16 at 10 am ET. Read The Full Story

Chris Hadfield and crew safely return to Earth from International Space Station

, May 14th 2013 Discuss [0]

We get all sorts of welcomes in life, but few of them are as grand as the one you'd no doubt receive returning to Earth after having hovered above it for 144 days. Such was the case for Commander Chris Hadfield and the rest of his crew that was aboard the International Space Station, all of whom have just safely landed on our home planet in Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Read The Full Story

NASA planning emergency spacewalk to fix ISS ammonia leak

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

After an ammonia leak was discovered on the International Space Station last night, NASA and the ISS crew are working together to come up with a fix. It's been decided that an emergency spacewalk will be conducted to inspect the leak and attempt to fix it before matters get worse. The leak is on the outside, so it isn't immediately life-threatening, but the supply will run out if the leak continues. Read The Full Story

NASA says ISS has an ammonia coolant leak

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

NASA has confirmed that the international space station is currently in need of maintenance on the cooling system used on one the solar power generating arrays. At about 10:30 AM yesterday, members of ISS Expedition 35 crew reported to NASA that small white flakes were floating away from an area of the ISS' P6 truss structure. Read The Full Story

New photo from ISS shows moon rising over a darkened Earth

, May 2nd 2013 Discuss [0]

International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield has been busy taking photos of the Earth from the ISS for a few months now, mostly showing us what cities look like from 250 miles up, but a particular photo that he posted just recently is a bit different, and it shows a beautiful horizon with the moon rising over a darkened Earth. Read The Full Story

2014 Olympic torch to be carried in space

, Apr 29th 2013 Discuss [0]

The Winter Olympics are set to begin in 2014, which means the Olympic torch will once again be carried around the world before it finally lands in the Olympic Stadium in Russia to mark the beginning of the sporting event. However, the torch will take a trip to space where it will be taken on a spacewalk for the first time ever. Read The Full Story

Space rock rips through ISS solar panel, gives hull a miss

, Apr 29th 2013 Discuss [0]

Space is a dangerous world. Debris is flying around everywhere, including small space rocks (read: bits of asteroid or meteoroid), which means that the International Space Station is constantly prone to getting hit by these small objects, and when you're traveling at 4.8 miles per second, even small objects can have a big impact. ISS Commander Chris Hadfield tweeted a photo of a hole in the one of the solar panels where a space rock ripped through. Read The Full Story

Russian cargo fail no block to today’s ISS dock

, Apr 26th 2013 Discuss [0]

Today the unpiloted Russian cargo ship known as Progress 51 has reached the International Space Station and docked successfully. This news is extra positive due to the failure of the craft's antenna after initial launch, both Russian mission control and NASA confirming earlier this week. The craft has now docked - at 1225 GMT to be precice - after extra care was given to the landing due to the unopened antenna. Read The Full Story

ISS experiment confirms state of wrung-out wet towel in space

, Apr 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has this week returned a request from a couple of high school science students to perform a simple experiment aboard the International Space Station: wringing out water from a wet washcloth. It's shown first that a washcloth on the ISS is stored in a sort of hockey puck form, smashed down to its smallest physical form to avoid taking up any unnecessary space aboard the space station. From there it's a lengthy task just unfolding the piece of material for basic use. Read The Full Story

Cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov becomes world’s oldest spacewalker

, Apr 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

NASA is live-streaming a spacewalk right now, which involves two cosmonauts going out into the deep, dark space in order to fetch some equipment off the exterior of the International Space Station. One of those men is Flight Engineer Pavel Vinogradov, who is 59 years old and is now the oldest person ever to go out on a spacewalk. Read The Full Story

NASA live-streaming six-hour ISS spacewalk right now

, Apr 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

This isn't the first time that NASA has live-streamed a spacewalk, but we certainly don't get treated to them very often. Today, NASA is live streaming a six-hour spacewalk aboard the International Space Station, as two Russian cosmonauts venture their way out into deep, dark space to fix a broken reflector and install weather monitoring equipment on the exterior of the station. Read The Full Story

NASA chooses TESS and NICER projects for 2017 missions

, Apr 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

NASA has decided on two "low-cost" missions that it plans on launching in 2017. The first project involves the MIT-led Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project, and the second project involves the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), which will be mounted onto the International Space Station. NASA will spend a total of $255 million for both projects. Read The Full Story
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