Video: SpaceX's new manned Dragon
Would like to meet and fly aboard SpaceX's next generation manned Dragon V2 spacecraft?
Space Exploration
Jun 3, 2014
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News tagged with human spaceflight
Robonaut 2 set to move freely about space station
Legs—yes, legs—are on the manifest for the next SpaceX Dragon flight. The commercial spacecraft is expected to blast off March 16 with appendenges for Robonaut 2 on board, allowing the humanoid to move freely around station. ...
Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2014
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Image: Orbital Science's commercial spacecraft Cygnus-1
Orbital Science's commercial spacecraft Cygnus-1 left the International Space Station today, 17 February 2014, after spending around a month in space.
Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2014
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Image: Preparing for fire on the International Space Station
Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Fire drill for ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst
Space Exploration
Feb 5, 2014
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Spaceflight alters bacterial social networks
When astronauts launch into space, a microbial entourage follows. And the sheer number of these followers would give celebrities on Twitter a run for their money. The estimate is that normal, healthy adults have ten times ...
Space Exploration
Aug 15, 2013
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NASA commercial crew partner Boeing completes new spacecraft, rocket milestones
The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. ...
Space Exploration
Jun 4, 2013
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Eyes on our Sun: ESA opens new space weather centre in Brussels
This week, ESA opened a new Space Weather Coordination Centre to gather up-to-date information on our Sun. It is the first such data coordination centre opened under the Agency's Space Situational Awareness Programme.
Space Exploration
Apr 8, 2013
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Europe readies for solar storm risks
Europe launched its first space weather coordination centre Wednesday to raise the alarm for possible satellite-sizzling solar storms that also threaten astronauts in orbit, plane passengers and electricity grids on Earth.
Space Exploration
Apr 3, 2013
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ESA workhorse to power NASA's Orion spacecraft
(Phys.org)—The ATV-derived service module, sitting directly below Orion's crew capsule, will provide propulsion, power, thermal control, as well as supplying water and gas to the astronauts in the habitable module.
Space Exploration
Jan 17, 2013
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Private test pilots to fly first commercial crewed space flights for NASA
Commercial test pilots, not NASA astronauts, will fly the first crewed missions that NASA hopes will at last restore America's capability to blast humans to Earth orbit from American soil – perhaps as early as 2015 – ...
Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2013
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