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Three station fliers prep for launch to lab complex
news.cnet.com | Dec 20, 2009
...shuttle veteran, and rookie astronaut Timothy Creamer are scheduled for launch at 4:52 p.m. EST from the same pad used by Yuri Gagarin at the dawn of the space age. Liftoff was targeted for roughly the moment Earth's rotation carries the launch...
Images of space-age dreams
www.newscientist.com | Jan 14, 2010
Images of space-age dreams 16:27 14 January 2010 From Russia's Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training facility to NASA's Apollo control centre, photographer Vincent Fournier takes us inside the often inaccessible...
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/strange-world-of-space-travel
Astronauts blast off on Christmas space voyage
www.space-travel.com | Dec 21, 2009
...that helped launch the space race when it propelled Yuri Gagarin into orbit almost half a century ago. The Soyuz...on the Kazakh steppe, the same location from which Yuri Gagarin first rocketed ... read more . . Memory Foam...
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Astronauts_blast_off_on_Christmas_space_voyage_999.html
Astronauts blast off on Christmas space voyage
www.spacedaily.com | Dec 22, 2009
...undertaken during the winter months here at the historic cosmodrome that helped launch the space race when it propelled Yuri Gagarin into orbit almost half a century ago. The Soyuz successfully reached its designated orbit to applause and cheers...
New NASA Online Calendar Is Totally Confusing
nasawatch.com | Jan 3, 2010
...Challenger was lost on 28 December, that Columbia was lost on 1 November, that Sputnik 1 was launched on 4 March, that Yuri Gagarin's flight was on 12 September, and that Spring begins on 20 October 2010... In fairness, the website does...
Latest Progress En Route To Station
www.aviationweek.com | Feb 4, 2010
...Moscow time, setting up a rendezvous with the orbital outpost Feb. 5. The vehicle lifted off from Pad 1 at Baikonur (Yuri Gagarin’s launch pad) at 6:45 a.m. Moscow time (10:45 p.m. EST Feb. 2), carrying nearly 6,000 pounds...
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/asd/2010/02/04/04.xml
Astronauts geared for yuletide space adventure (AP)
news.yahoo.com | Dec 20, 2009
...remote space complex in southern Kazakhstan. Their Soyuz TMA-17 rocket is primed at the Baikonur launch pad — where Yuri Gagarin made the first human trip into orbit in 1961 — for a mission that will boost the number of crew at the orbital laboratory...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091220/ap_on_sc/as_kazakhstan_space_launch
Astronauts gear up for 'space sushi', Twitter aboard the ISS
www.space-travel.com | Dec 20, 2009
...2200 GMT Sunday) from Russia's historic Baikonur cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppe, the same location from which Yuri Gagarin first rocketed into the cosmos. They will hurtle into low Earth orbit and then make a gradual ascent to the station...
Expedition 22 Keeps Busy While Awaiting Additional Crew Members
www.space-travel.com | Dec 22, 2009
...2200 GMT Sunday) from Russia's historic Baikonur cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppe, the same location from which Yuri Gagarin first rocketed ... read more . . Memory Foam Mattress Review SPACE MEDIA NETWORK PROMOTIONS Solar Energy...
Engage the x drive: Ten ways to traverse deep space
www.newscientist.com | Dec 21, 2009
...similar stories, visit the Spaceflight Topic Guide Read full article Continue reading page |1 |2 |3 In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to reach outer space. Eight years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made it to the...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18283-engage-the-x-drive-ten-ways-to-traverse-deep-space.html
