The Progress 35 cargo resuply vehicle launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome has docked to the International Space Station on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 9:41 PM EDT.
Archive for October, 2009
IRVE, or the Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, is a NASA mission which was designed to demonstrate that inflatable structures can be used as heat shields for re-entry vehicles. IRVE launched from NASA\’s Wallops Flight Facility, which is located on Virginia\’s Eastern Shore on the Delmarva Peninsula.
Expedition 20 crew members Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt have returned to Earth. They shared the Soyuz TMA-14 capsule with Canadian spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte.
Read more about Expedition 20…
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Carnival of Space #123 is hosted by Chris Dann at Weird Warp.
This week you can read about space tourism, the Messenger spacecraft, the Cassini mission, the Mars Science Laboratory, heliospheric crossings and their consequences, space travel, nanotechnology, the space elevator, and much more.
LCROSS crashed into the lunar surface on Friday, October 9, 2009, around 11:31 UTC, shortly after the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas V launch vehicle. The impact occurred in the Cabeus crater, which is situated about 100 km from the south pole of the Moon.
In 1999, the Lunar Prospector detected traces of concentrated hydrogen at the lunar poles. The LCROSS mission\’s main goal is to confirm the presence or absence of water in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. The LCROSS mission used the Centaur upper stage as a kinetic impactor in order to excavate a crater on the surface of the Moon.
The Soyuz TMA 16 spacecraft, carrying Jeff Williams, Maxim Suraev, and Guy Laliberté, docks with the International Space Station.
Read more about Expedition 21…
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