NASA Creates Spacewalk Mishap Investigation Board, NASA “NASA has appointed a board to investigate the July 16 early termination of a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, develop a set of lessons learned from the incident and suggest ways to prevent a similar problem in the future. The board will begin its work Friday, Aug. 2, in close coordination with a NASA engineering team already examining the spacesuit and life […]

Station Crew Members Take a Walk in Space [Watch], NASA “Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 36 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin conducted a 6 hour, 34 minute spacewalk in Russian Orlan suits outside the Pirs Docking Compartment June 24.”

Soyuz TMA-09M Docks WIth ISS “Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano docked their Soyuz to the station’s Rassvet module at 10:16 p.m. this evening.” New Space Station Residents on Fast Track to Orbital Laboratory (With video), NASA “Three new Expedition 36 crew members lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:31 […]