NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 13 June 2013, SpaceRef “New Status: Capillary Flow Experiment (CFE) Vane Gap-1: Flight Engineer (FE)-6 Nyberg completed the 8th of 11 planned test sessions. With ground direction, Nyberg used the CFE-2 vessel to observe fluid interface and critical wetting behavior in a cylindrical chamber with elliptic cross-section and an adjustable central perforated vane. CFE uses the low-gravity environment provided by the International Space Station to understand […]

Launch of ESA’s ATV-4 Einstein, ArianeSpace Marc’s note: Today’s launch went off without a hitch at 5:52 p.m. EDT (21:52 GMT). The Automated Transfer Vehicle 4 or ‘Einstein’ is loaded with more than 7 tons of supplies for the International Space Station crew. ATV-4 was named by ESA in honor of the 20th century theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein. The Ariane 5 launched from Kourou, French Guiana.

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 […]

A Message from the International Space Station to All Humankind, (Video) NASA “NASA Television shares this inspiring production by Italian videomaker, Giacomo Sardelli, about the International Space Station, its inhabitants, and its role in space exploration. Sardelli writes of the video, “I’m not the first one to use NASA’s pictures taken from the International Space Station to craft a Timelapse video. You can find many of them on the Internet, […]

NASA Contract Award to Resources for the Future: Measuring Research Performance in Space Station Research (redacted copy) “Our objective is to design an Atlas of ISS Science, a systematic, rigorous and peer-reviewed framework and analysis that is then visually displayed to compellingly characterize and demonstrate the new knowledge created from the nation’s “lab aloft”. In essence, the Atlas, and the data and analysis on which it is built, will be […]

ISS Expedition 31 Crew Lands Safely, NASA (With landing video.) “Three members of the Expedition 31 crew undocked from the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth Sunday, July 1, wrapping up a mission that lasted six-and-a-half months.” “Russian Commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers landed their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 3:14 a.m. CDT (2:14 p.m. local […]