The Cygnus cargo spaceship has safely docked to the International Space Station (ISS), the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said on Sunday.
A private U.S. cargo spaceship was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday afternoon, months after two U.S. commercial shipments were destroyed in launch explosions.
A Japanese unmanned cargo ship plunged into the atmosphere over the South Pacific early Wednesday after completing a supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the Japanese space agency said.
The unmanned Dragon capsule owned by private U.S. firm SpaceX arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday morning for its fifth commercial resupply mission to the orbiting laboratory, U.S. space agency NASA said.
The US spacecraft Dragon with 1.6 tons of supplies for the International
Space Station (ISS) was successfully launched Saturday from Cape
Canaveral in Florida, NASA said on its website.
MOSCOW, August 11, /ITAR-TASS/. Russia's moon exploration plans have
found reflection in a draft Federal Space Programme (FSP) for a
2016-2025 period, worked by the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). The
draft FSP envisions that already in 2018 work will be started to develop
the elements of a moon base and special-purpose technology that will be
required for building it, the newspaper Izvestia writes referring to
the document a copy of which it has available.
Izvestia quotes the draft Programme as pointing out that "The 'Manned
Flights' avenue of research includes projects to bring into being an
on-ground development complex as the prototype of a first-phase moon
base consisting of four modules (habitation, laboratory, power, and
modernised node) for comprehensive linkage and verification of the
adopted architectural and technical solutions".
MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian space rocket corporation
Energia has completed the technical design of a new manned spacecraft
whose flight tests are due to begin in 2017, Energia President Vitaly
Lopota said on Wednesday. “We have completed the technical design project taking into account
the fact that the new spaceship is to fly to the Moon, among other
places,” he said. Energia won the spaceship design tender in April 2009.