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Apollo-Soyuz

Survival: Terrifying Moments in Space Flight

March 16, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Space is a dangerous and sometimes fatal business, but happily there were moments where a situation happened and the astronauts were able to recover. An example: today (March 16) in 1966, Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott were just starting the Gemini [...]

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Expedition 32 Crew Lifts Off

July 15, 2012

At 9:40 p.m. CDT a Soyuz TMA-05M rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Expedition 32 Commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA Flight Engineer Sunita “Suni” Williams and JAXA Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide to the International Space Station. It was a beautiful launch on a hot summer day at the Cosmodrome — watch the video [...]

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Obama: This is a ‘Capture the Flag’ Moment for Commercial Spaceflight

July 15, 2011

President Barack Obama called out for pizza today and ending up talking with the crews of STS-135 and Expedition 28 on the International Space Station. Well, that was his story anyway, but he did talk with the crews, offering a challenge for commercial space companies, as well as remembering the first flight of cooperation between [...]

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Apollo 20

October 21, 2009

Apollo 20 was among the Apollo missions that were cut by NASA due to budget restrictions. The mission was incorporated into the Skylab space station program. Originally, NASA produced 15 flight-worthy Saturn V rockets. This was enough to provide for two unmanned tests and 13 manned missions. The 13 manned missions included the ten missions [...]

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