Exploring The Frontier Of Space
ISS One-Year Mission Expedition 43 Soyuz TMA-16M Launch Coverage NASA TV A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off for the International Space Station today. Their launch wasn’t historic in its own right. After all, the three are members of the 43rd expeditionary crew to live aboard the outpoust. What is groundbreaking is the […]
Continuing their track record for delivering both commercial and civial missions to orbit, Arianespace successfully launched the Sentinel-1A Earth observation satellite for Europe today. Carried onboard a Soyuz rocket from the spaceport in French Guiana, Sentinel-1A blasted off on time at 5:02:26 p.m. EDT to begin a 23-minute ascent into a Sun-synchronous orbit.
The first international partnership in space wasn’t the International Space Station. It wasn’t even the Shuttle-Mir series of missions. It was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first international human spaceflight. On July 15, 1975, an Apollo spacecraft launched carrying a crew of three and docked two days later on July 17, with a Soyuz spacecraft […]