18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
SpaceX and NASA are targeting May 27 for Falcon 9’s launch of Crew Dragon’s second demonstration mission (Demo-2) from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts ...
29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough ...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... solve the following two major technical issues requiring a certain amount of investment: Launch capacity gap The ISS orbit is circular at about 400 km with an inclination of 51.6 degrees compared to the CSS’s planned 42-43 degrees, 300-350 km orbit...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... Space (as a business entity of Sierra Nevada Corp) is contracted to NASA for resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS) using its expendable Shooting Star cargo capsules. The company has also delivered its prototype of an inflatable...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... legislation of the Russian Federation and contracts signed by the cosmonauts. Non-professional cosmonauts can fly to the ISS only as members of a space flight. On Russian spacecraft, members of space flight can be both Russian citizens and foreign...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
... and humidity conditions, as well as ease of meal preparation. Cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky showing a set of Russian foods on the ISS. Expedition 52-53, 2017. These requirements are most fully met by foods stabilised in different ways, the most common...
