For the third time in the last few weeks, the International Space Station avoided a collision with debris. This time, the ISS was slowed down and moved to a slightly lower orbit. Without this maneuver, the ISS might have been damaged by a 4-inch piece from an old Chinese satellite. The flight director for the [...]

The shuttle Columbia was destroyed, along with its crew, in a horrible tragedy caused by foam from the fuel tank damaging the critical heat shield tiles on the vehicle. The tile damage resulted in the spacecraft’s destruction. Now, in today’s launch of the shuttle Discovery, a new adhesive was used to keep the foam from [...]

The crew of the International Space Station is scheduled to increase from 3 to 6. And, at that point, there may be no “rooms at the inn” for space tourists who pay upwards of $20 million for a visit. Your Seat Is Taken And the Russian Space Agency suggests that, after this year, there may [...]