Category Archives: Events

Events, Multiple media, Space Systems

Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo ship approaching the ISS

Watch the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo ship on NASA TV as it approaches the International Space Station for the first time:

Live streaming video by Ustream

Update: Get updates on the approach to the berthing at Twitter / Search – #Cygnus.

Update 2: Background information on this commercial cargo demonstration mission can be found at Orb-D1 COTS Demonstration.

A successful berthing will mean that NASA now has two commercial providers of cargo for the ISS. SpaceX has previously carried out one demo and two operational cargo missions to the ISS.

The entire program, including the development of two rockets (SpaceX Falcon 9 and the Orbital Sciences Antares) and two cargo carriers (SpaceX Dragon capsule and Orbital’s Cygnus module) cost the agency around $900M. This is less than than 2/3 the cost of a single Space Shuttle mission.

Activism, Events, Space participation

SpaceUp Atlanta today

SpaceUp Atlanta is currently under way at the GTRI Conference Center (250 14th Street Northwest). Some reports from the event can be found at

* Twitter / StephenFleming:

Ed Wright @RocketAcademy is speaking about citizen science in space at @SpaceUpATL pic.twitter.com/SawuO4SI4r

* Twitter / StephenFleming:

Paul Graham (the @openluna one, not @paulg!) talks about spacesuits you can wear for 30 days at @SpaceUpATL pic.twitter.com/HN6SzDUmQs

Events, Rockets, SpaceCasts

Soyuz launch this afternoon with three crew members for the ISS

A Soyuz rocket is set to lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2058 GMT (4:58 p.m. EDT). It will carry with a Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft with NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Russian commander Oleg Kotov and cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy on board. It will follow “an express six-hour journey to the space station, with docking to the Poisk module at 0248 GMT (10:58 p.m. EDT)” .

More at

[ Update: Here is a video of the successful launch:

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Activism, Events, Space participation

Four SpaceUp events this fall

Check for a SpaceUp Unconference near you this year:

 

Events, Living in Space

Three ISS Expedition 36 crew members back on earth after 166 days in orbit

Three ISS crewmembers returned to earth on Tuesday (US time):

After rentering Earth’s atmosphere, Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency and NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy landed safely on the steppe of Kazakhstan on Sept. 11. The trio completed 166 days in space.

Earlier in the day they did there farewells on the Station to Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency.