05/20/08: NASA Honors Apollo 13 Astronaut Jack Swigert.

NASA will honor the late astronaut John ‘Jack’ L.
Swigert, Jr., with the presentation of an Ambassador of Exploration
Award for his involvement in the U.S. space program, during a
ceremony with Apollo 13 spacecraft commander James Lovell on Friday,
May 23. – NASA

05/20/08: International Space Station On-Orbit Status Report.

CDR Volkov performed [...]

05/15/08: Progress M-64/P29 Launches from Baikonur.

According to the flight program and Russian Party commitments under the International Space Station Project, Progress M-64 transport cargo vehicle was launched from Baikonur launch site at 00:22:56 Moscow time. – S P Korolev RSC Energia

05/14/08: International Space Station On-Orbit Status Report.

In the US Airlock (A/L), Garrett Reisman performed troubleshooting [...]

05/06/08: STS-124 Crew Arrives for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test.

The STS-124 crew members arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida this afternoon for the terminal countdown demonstration test. Flying in T-38 training jets, the astronauts touched down on the Shuttle Landing Facility on a warm, clear Central Florida afternoon. During this three-day prelaunch training event, [...]

05/04/08: International Space Station On-Orbit Status Report.

CDR Volkov conducted his first recharging of the Motorola Iridium-9505A satellite phone brought up on Soyuz 16S, a monthly routine job. The satphone accompanies returning ISS crews on Soyuz reentry and landing for contingency communications with SAR (Search-and-Rescue) personnel after touchdown (e.g., after an ‘undershoot’ ballistic reentry, as [...]

04/27/08: Russian Easter in Space for Expedition 17.

At ~09:23 UT, Expedition 17 Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer 1 Oleg Kononenko conducted a teleconference via VHF with Patriarch Alexis II of the Russian Orthodox Church, who extended best wishes on the occasion of today’s Easter celebration. – NASA

04/26/08: STS-124: Discovery Rolls Over to Vehicle Assembly [...]

03/24/08: STS-123: Space Shuttle Undocks from ISS.

The space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station at 00:25 UT, completing 11 days, 20 hours and 36 minutes of docked operations. After saying their goodbyes, the two crews closed hatches between the two vehicles at 21:49 UT. Undocking was delayed about 30 minutes, due to a [...]

03/21/08: STS-123: Astronauts Test Heat Shield Repair Device.

The major focus of today’s spacewalk was a demonstration of the Tile Repair Ablator Dispenser – a caulk-gun-like device – and the application of a substance called Shuttle Tile Ablator-54 (STA-54) into intentionally damaged heat shield tiles. The astronauts applied the STA-54 into various molds, including a few [...]

03/19/08: STS-123: Dextre Successfully Moved to Destiny.

The crews of Endeavour and the International Space Station today moved Dextre, the station’s new robotic attachment, to its home on top of the station’s U.S. Destiny Laboratory and worked to move the Spacelab pallet back into Endeavour’s cargo bay. Mission Specialist Leopold Eyharts and Pilot Greg Johnson used [...]

03/16/08: STS-123: Linnehan and Foreman Install Dextre.

Astronauts Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman spent more than seven hours outside the International Space Station today, attaching the two arms of the Canadian Space Agency’s Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator, or Dextre. Dextre’s arms, each 11 feet long, provide the robot with the ability to work outside the station [...]

03/13/08: STS-123: Endeavour Docks With ISS.

Space shuttle Endeavour docked successfully to the International Space Station at 11:49 p.m. EDT.
About an hour before docking, STS-123 Commander Dominic Gorie and Pilot Gregory H. Johnson guided the shuttle through a back-flip maneuver, giving the Expedition 16 crew the opportunity to take pictures of the orbiter’s protective heat-resistant tiles. [...]