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From Mark Kelly's Facebook page: Today, I am humbled to announce that after 25 years of service to our country, I am retiring from the United States Navy and leaving NASA, effective Oct. 1. Words cannot convey my deep gratitude for the opportunities I have been given to serve our great nation...

Today (12th April 2011 - the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight and the 30th anniversary of STS-1), NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will announce the permanent retirement homes for four Space Shuttle orbiters. The announcement will be made in front of OPF-1 at the Kennedy Space Center at...

Hi all, A friend lent me his spare telescope last week, which is my first ever "proper" telescope. It looks kinda like this (made my Meade). I don't know the exact specs of it as he didn't give me a manual with it. Due to last week's cloud, I didn't bother setting it up until tonight, when...

Parts of ATV Edoardo Amaldi coming together. While ESA's second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, is undergoing final launch preparations, its successor, ATV Edoardo Amaldi, is shaping up in Bremen. The launch of Europe’s third space ferry is planned for February 2012. The three...

Excalibur Almaz Space Stations arrive on Isle of Man. Excalibur Almaz Limited (EA), the international commercial space exploration company, is exporting two partially completed Almaz space stations from Russia to the IOM today. The stations and Excalibur Almaz’ reusable return vehicles were...

I thought I'd start a thread for NASA's CCDev-2 (Commercial Crew Development-2) Program, seems as the CCDev-2 proposals were submitted this week. Here's the new CCDev-2 proposals. Some very interesting new spacecraft! :thumbup: Boeing Submits Proposal for 2nd Round of NASA Commercial Crew...

ESA: "Graduation of Europe's new astronauts". ESA’s six latest astronaut candidates proudly received their diplomas today at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. From now on, they are officially ‘astronauts’. The new astronauts, smiling in their blue overalls, were in the...

Orbital Technologies and RSC Energia to Launch World's First Commercial Space Station. Private Russian company and lead contractor for the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation collaborate to commercialize space. Orbital Technologies and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (RSC...

Plush Monkey to Indicate Zero-Gravity in Soyuz TMA-01M. Plush monkey will become a talisman for the new expedition of the International Space Station. The monkey will also indicate weightlessness in the Soyuz TMA-01M vehicle during the launch sequence, Soyuz commander Alexander Kaleri told news...

ESA: "Next step for ESA’s first Moon lander". Mission description: land autonomously with pinpoint precision near the Moon’s south pole, a region full of dangerous boulders and high ridges. The aim of ESA’s proposed precursor is to probe the moonscape’s unknowns and test new technology to...

SiberianTiger suggested we make a separate thread for this, and I agree as it is likely to become a big story, so here it is! :) Aviation Week: "Lockheed Proposing Early Asteroid Exploration". SPACE.com: "'Plymouth Rock' Deep Space Asteroid Mission Idea Gains Ground". SpaceRef: "'Plymouth...

collectSPACE: "William Lenoir, astronaut who flew on first operational space shuttle mission, dies". Rest In Peace to a great man.

NASA have just released these fantastic Space Shuttle tribute posters. Check out the poster for Atlantis - the globe in the bottom-left corner really looks like Orbiter to me! It would be fantastic if it were - what an honour it would be for our community! Hi-res version. Hi-res version...

This thread is for updates on JAXA's HTV-2. HTV-2 is currently scheduled to launch on January 20, 2011, and be captured by the SSRMS & berthed to the ISS on January 27. It will be unberthed from the ISS & released by the SSRMS on February 24. These are the HTV-2 Payloads: PLC: • Kobairo rack...

Some sad news. NASA Watch: "Plane Crash In Alaska - Sean O'Keefe Was Aboard". SPACE.com: "Reports: Former NASA Chief Aboard Plane That Crashed in Alaska". Florida Today: "Former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe in plane crash". msnbc: "Ex-head of NASA on plane that crashes in Alaska". CNN...

I decided to start a dedicated thread for this, as I think CST-100 could become a big player in the COTS/commercial space arena! SPACE.com: "New Spaceship Could Fly People to Private Space Stations". Spaceflight Now: "Boeing space capsule could be operational by 2015". Florida Today's "The...

I think we need a dedicated thread for this topic now. ---------- Spaceflight Now: "Taurus 2 rocket could launch astronaut crews from Florida". ---------- Here's a great article about Cygnus' PCMs (Pressurized Cargo Modules), currently being assembled by Thales Alenia Space (TAS) in Torino...

NASA: "Cassini Sees Moon Building Giant Snowballs in Saturn Ring". Astronomy Now: "Saturn’s F-ring gets a fan".

SpaceRef: "Space Florida Receives FAA License for Space Launch Complex 46". ATK Completes Installation of World's Largest Solid Rocket Motor for Ground Test.

Progress M-06M/Progress 38 (38P), carrying basic supplies for the Expedition 24 crew, will launch to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome today at 3:35 PM GMT. It will dock to the Aft port of the Zvezda Service Module (recently vacated by Soyuz TMA-19) on Friday 2nd July at 4:58 PM GMT. It...