Posted by Ray Katz
Americans continue to fly in space
Yeah, I’m not too happy about it. The United States has no capability to...
Posted by Ray Katz
Godspeed Atlantis
As I write these words, the launch sequencer called for a hold at the last...
Posted by Ray Katz
National space agencies
Sometimes I forget how many national space agencies there are. Of course, I...
Posted by Ray Katz
Constellation reborn
The planned successor to the shuttle program was dead. But it didn’t...
Posted by Ray Katz
Spaceflight around the web
What’s going on up there? Here’s a roundup of what’s being...
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“Ballet” in Space?!
I don’t know for sure if this much is true…but there’s a report that the band Spandau Ballet will perform on a Virgin Galactic flight in 2012. My sources are blogs…and I don’t know what their sources are…so this is possible, but uncertain. In any case, one lucky passenger should be able to see the [...]
Tweets from space
I just added myself to the nearly 23,000 followers of T.J. Creamer, an astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station. This morning, Creamer became the first person to live “tweet” from space. His historic tweet said “Hello Twitterverse!” I’m also following two of his crew mates. Some years back, I received (forwarded to me) an [...]
Changing of the space station?
I must admit, I didn’t know a thing about this. In passing, in this article, it mentions the planned 2016 retirement of the International Space Station. Retirement? So soon? We’re just about to complete building it! Big meeting on future space station The thrust of the article is that some groups—including the European Space Agency [...]
