On June 10, 2011, a Delta II launch vehicle lifted off with the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Aquarius mission is a collaboration between NASA and the Space Agency of Argentina, and it will provide a global view of salinity variability.
The Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft docks to the International Space Station. The Soyuz crew, Sergei Volkov, Mike Fossum, and Satoshi Furukawa, will spend about five months aboard the space station.
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ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli shot the video from the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that undocked from the station on May 23, 2011. The video shows the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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On June 8, 2011, a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle lifted off with the manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-02M. Soyuz carries to the International Space Station a crew of three: cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and flight engineers Michael Fossum and Satoshi Furukawa.
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On June 5, 2011, a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-02M rolled out from the Assembly and Test Facility at the Baikonur cosmodrome.
Copenhagen Suborbitals is an open source and non-profit endeavour. The founders are Peter Madsen and Kristian von Bengtson. The launch of the HEAT-1X rocket with Tycho Brahe spacecraft went pretty much as planned. However, the parachute failed to deploy and Tycho Brahe plunged into the sea at dive speed. Watch Kristian von Bengtson present Copenhagen Suborbitals at a TEDx Conference.
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