"Jim Oberg" wrote in message news:... Can anyone direct me to technical details of the Orlan spacesuit external heat exchange...

from Alpha On-Orbit Status 12/13/05 // Upcoming Events (all dates Eastern): 12/21/05 -- Progress M-55/20P launch (1:38pm EST) 12/23/05 -- Progress M-55/20P...

As the Expedition-12 crew is at the halfway mark on their mission, I'd like to write a profile of cosmonaut Tokarev for NBC's website. By all accounts he has...

Anybody recall ever seeing images of religious icons aboard ISS or Mir? Can you provide URLs to such photographs? Thanks!

http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=639930 Kommersant: Russia and U.S. Share Space on Soyuz by Ivan Safronov // Space cooperation At the end of last week,...

Interesting news item -- wasn't the entire original price tag of the Shuttle-Mir flights determined by the amount the Russians CLAIMED would be lost when they...

The lift-off time for 'New Horizons' has been delayed from 1:24 PM until 1:45 PM for two concerns: 1. A fuel drain valve 'funny' that had engineers...

COSMIC LOG, by Alan Boyle http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10880338/#060117b Testing the space hotel: In an example of beating space swords into plowshares, the...

Behind the beautiful Soyuz launch: overcoming a communications emergency http://www.thespacereview.com/article/597/1 by James Oberg Monday, April 10,...

Has Russia committed any significant amount of its own money to this project? It seems to me that Perminov was counting on European and Japanese partners to...

SFOG misfires -- not unexpected, no problem ISS On-Orbit Status 05/24/05 -- All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or...

Today's attempt to get the broken Elektron Unit-7 up and running worked -- for one hour. then it broke down again.

MSNBC (Oberg) - NASA, Russians forging a deal for rides Crew-hours would be swapped for seats on Soyuz http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6640347/ By James Oberg,...

The Space Review: Action-reaction in space: the "gyrodine war" heats up http://www.thespacereview.com/article/331/1 photo: Water vapor emitted by Russian...

Zheleznyakov reported at 19:15 GMT that Progress M-52 was launched at 19:09:18 GMT, aboard Soyuz-U (11?511?) ? 093. The payload is vehicle 11?615A55 ? 352...

Hewre's a conversation going on elsewhe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zeger Nuyens" To:...

according to Russian wire stories

Anybody monitoring a/g, please make special notes on discussions regarding the latest 'troubleshooting' on Elektron: From Saturday's on-orbit status...

Special 'space tour' (Sep 17 - Oct 1) American Museum of Natural History's DISCOVERY TOURS special program: EARTH ORBIT: Inside the U.S. and Russian Space...

May 15 double-barrel Soviet space anniversary A tale of two rockets ... with a happy ending Russian anniversaries highlight how twists of fate averted war...