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 Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 11, 2009 
South Korea will launch its first carrier rocket from the Naro Space Center on August 11, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Monday. The rocket will bear a small research satellite. The launch was originally planned for July 30, but Russian experts who took part in the development of the rocket asked for additional time to test and adjust on-board systems to ensure its ... read more
Seoul (YNA) Aug 05, 2009South Korea said Tuesday it may have to again postpone the launch of its first space rocket because further examination of a critical combustion test conducted last week is needed. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said that while Russia successfully completed the "hot fire test" last Thursday, some "technical issues" still have to be clarified, requiring more time. ... more
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Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 31, 2009Russian cargo transport vehicle Progress I-67 after a five-day free flight has docked to the International Space Station (ISS). All the dynamic operations leading to rendezvous and docking were performed under supervision of the Technical Management (Technical Manager is the President of RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev, Designer General V.A. Lopota) Flight control specialists and members of ... more 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 30, 2009Russia's Progress M-67 cargo spacecraft successfully docked on Wednesday with the International Space Station (ISS), Russian Mission Control said. A Russian Soyuz-U rocket with the freighter lifted off on Friday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. The Progress took five days instead of the usual two to reach the ISS because of a delay in the arrival of U.S. space shuttle En ... more  
Baikonur Kazakhstan (SPX) Jul 30, 2009SpaceQuest, Ltd. ("SpaceQuest"), a U.S. satellite technology company headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, is pleased to announce the successful launch of two SpaceQuest-manufactured microsatellites, Aprizesat-3 and Aprizesat-4. On July 29, 2009, at 18:46 GMT the two spacecraft were successfully launched into a circular sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit (LEO) aboard a Russian Dnepr launch vehi ... more |
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Los Angeles, CA (SPX) 13, 2009Free Radical Productions has now made the documentary film, "Orphans of Apollo," available on DVD @ www.OrphansofApollo.com. "Orphans of Apollo" is the award winning documentary that has been called the "greatest space story never told." The film "Orphans of Apollo," tells the extraordinary true story of a small group of entrepreneurs who felt 'orphaned' by President Nixon's decision to ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2009Does a sandwich on Mars taste different? The answer could be no, according to new research that found long-term spaceflight exposure doesn't change later generations of wheat seeds. Molecular biologist Robert Ferl of the University of Florida and colleagues studied wheat seeds descended from plants that flew on the Russian Mir space station. The progenitor plants were in space for 167 days ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 15, 2009From March 31 to July 14, a six-man international crew called an isolation chamber in Moscow their home. The crew, composed of four Russians and two Europeans, simulated a 105-day Mars mission full of experiments and realistic mission scenarios, including emergency situations and 20-minute communications delays. U.S. participation in the mission consisted of three research teams with ... more |
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