According to Spaceflight Now, the first operational cargo flight of the Dragon spacecraft is carrying 1001 pounds of cargo. On the other hand, on the same site...

Is this problem with the attitude control pods to do with fuel sloshing as has been seen on other craft or is it something new. Brian -- From the Sofa of...

When I read the item below, it kind of gave me more questions than it answered. To me the two currently chosen solutions to commercial crew transport look...

Reading the recent press stuff from nasa, although I cannot quite put my finger in on it one gets the serious feeling that Boiing and Space X are getting...

Dropping back into the atmosphere at Mach 25 is never 'routine'.... as still-unexplained events on the LAST Soyuz descent remind us. msnbc.com (Oberg): Space...

I caught the end of an item on the radio yesterday which said that two drugs have been developed to trick the body into laying down muscle rather than fat,...

What is the meaning of "Duel Use"? I would think all the mice running around the space station are gyromice? * Pick it up and it moves the the pointer on the...

Carlos Herranz tells the fpspace list: "For those of you able to read Spanish (or with a good internet translator), today's Spanish newspapers carry the first...

Before anybody gives me that look...this question is totally in the context of a "what if" kind of hypothetical scenario. Suppose an asteroid somehow, through...

Hello, what is the frequency for earing space station or shuttle EVA's i try to: 145.800 MHz NFM for digital packet radio 259.700 MHz AM for audio...

Speaking from the European Commission Charlemagne Building on Thursday, ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers hailed the crew of the International Space Station: "Hello...

EarthKAM Operations Continue on Space Station Work continued Thursday aboard the International Space Station with an experiment that allows students to get an...

Media articles now speak of the upcoming increase to 6 member crews. What is the confidence level that USA ECLSS equipment will be reliable enough to support...

Quoting Ed Kyle on NSF : "Ares/Orion isn't perfect, but it is the plan for returning U.S. astronauts to the Moon. Those who have so strenuously opposed it,...

Dark Side of the Earth Some of the most incredible sights you can see from up here are on the dark side of the Earth, when the Sun doesn't dominate the sky. I...

Relativity After our 6 months in space, we will have actually aged slightly less than everyone else on the ground because of an effect called time dilation....

Orbits Lately, it seems like every time I look out the window I see Canada. A few weeks ago it seemed that it was always the southern Andes Mountains...

Last Letter We have visitors! Soyuz TMA-3 arrived the other day with Sasha, Mike, and Pedro. We'll spend one week passing on things we've learned here, and...

Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington Sept. 20, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1726) NOTE TO EDITORS: N04-150 EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS CALL STATION...

June 25, 2004. Korolev, Moscow Region. On egress into space of the ISS expedition 9 crew. In the course of implementation of operations under the program of...