Soyuz TMA-14 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 26, 2009. This is a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station, carrying two members of the Expedition 19 crew (Gennadi Padalka and Michael Barratt) and spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi on his second paying flight to the station.
Astronaut Mike Fincke takes you on a tour of the International Space Station. The International Space Station is the biggest man-made structure orbiting the Earth in LEO. The construction of the space station started in 1998.
Taurus is a four-stage, inertially guided, all solid fuel, ground launched vehicle, designed and built by Orbital Sciences Corporation. In a typical mission, Taurus can inject a 1,350 kg payload in low Earth orbit (LEO).
Taurus is well suited for LEO missions to a wide range of altitudes. Different orbital profiles can be attained through launches from more than one launch site. An additional fifth stage can boost the performance of the launch vehicle, making possible high energy and geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) missions.
Constellation Program is NASA’s new generation space transportation system. It is designed to cover a wide range of space missions, such as delivering supplies and human crews to the International Space Station (ISS) and traveling beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). The goal of the program is to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon and then go to Mars and other destinations.
Read more about the Constellation Program…
This afternoon, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), was injected into a near-Sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit. The launch was provided by Eurokot. A Rockot launch vehicle lifted off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.
The crew members of the STS-119 mission are Air Force Col. Lee Archambault as commander, Navy Cmdr. Tony Antonelli as the pilot, and NASA astronauts Joseph Acaba, John Phillips, Steve Swanson, Richard Arnold and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata as mission specialists.
STS-119 is the 28th shuttle mission to the International Space Station. Discovery also will carry the S6 truss segment to the orbital outpost.
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