Space Flight

Crew Launches to Space Station with Olympic Torch

Update: the crew has now arrived safely at the ISS. You can watch the arrival video below. Three new crew…

8 years ago

ATV-4 ‘Einstein’ Says Goodbye to the Space Station

The Expedition 37 crew onboard the International Space Station closed the hatch and said goodbye to the ATV-4 "Albert Einstein"…

8 years ago

Video: Spider Flown in Space Has Trouble Readapting to Gravity

Astronauts have said adapting to weightlessness is much easier than readapting to gravity when they returned to Earth. Muscle weakness,…

8 years ago

Astronomy Cast 318: Escape Velocity

Sometimes you've just got to get away from it all. From your planet, your Solar System and your galaxy. If…

8 years ago

Missile Launch Creates Weird Cloud Seen in Space

The astronauts on board the International Space Station saw a strange and unexpected view out their windows yesterday. “Saw something…

8 years ago

Best Ever Astronaut ‘Selfies’

"Talk about a selfie!" wrote former astronaut Clay Anderson on Twitter yesterday (Oct. 1). He posted that comment along with…

8 years ago

Soyuz Launches Expedition 37/38 to the International Space Station

The next crew of the International Space Station is on their way to orbit. Three members of the Expedition 37…

8 years ago

Um, Being an Astronaut or Cosmonaut Isn’t Interesting?

In an unusual news item from Russia’s RiaNovosti news, cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, who was scheduled to fly to the International…

8 years ago

Iran Releases Plans for Manned Spacecraft

After Iran launched a monkey in a suborbital rocket earlier this year, they are now setting their sights on sending…

8 years ago

Weekly Space Hangout – August 9, 2013

Gather round the internets for another episode of the Weekly Space Hangout. Where our experienced team of journalists, astronomers and…

8 years ago