dministrator Charles Bolden. Sunday’s nine-minute, 14-second ascent to orbit appeared flawless. The Falcon dropped the Dragon off in an elliptical path running from 197 km above the Earth out to 328 km. “Dragon was inserted into a picture-perfect orbit,” said SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell. “Its solar arrays deployed and it’s driving its way to station. So, thatR…
…s organized a range of ships, planes and ground stations to track the descent of the capsule, which will be slowed in the final minutes by three big parachutes. Dragon is projected to hit the water at 15:44 GMT (11:44 EDT). “Our splashdown zone is about 490 nautical miles south-west of Los Angeles,” explained John Coulurlis. “The recovery boats – it’s a fleet of three…
…ince NASA retired its shuttles last year. US astronaut Don Petit was inside the ISS at the controls of the Canadarm2. Don Petit reached out with the robotic appendage and grabbed the Dragon capsule at 13:56 GMT. SpaceX unmanned Dragon cargo ship has been successfully attached to the International Space Station (ISS) “Houston, looks like we got us a Dragon by the tail,” Don Petit radio…
p to the ISS astronauts, and brought down about two-thirds of a ton of completed experiments and redundant equipment. A successful recovery of the capsule and its contents will trigger a $1.6bn (£1bn; 1.3bn-euro) contract with the US space agency (NASA) for 12 further re-supply trips. Dragon’s fall to Earth was overseen by controllers at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California,…
SpaceX has successfully launched Dragon mission to re-supply the space station, the first cargo delivery to the orbiting outpost by a private company. The firm’s Falcon rocket, topped by an unmanned Dragon freight capsule, lifted clear of its Florida pad at 03:44 EDT. The initial climb to an altitude some 340 km above the Earth lasted a little under 10 minutes. Within moments of being eject…
…means of launching its own astronauts into space – rides must be bought for them on Russian Soyuz rockets at more than $60 million per seat. SpaceX says Dragon could be ready to carry people in 2015 at a seat price of $20 million. “In order for NASA to be able to afford any programme of exploration in the future given the fiscal realities of the government, it has to transition away f…
s at Citi investment bank argued there would be more births and marriages in the new lunar year, leading to an increase in property transactions in Hong Kong. It explains that the Western calendar has 365 days, whilst the lunar year has 354 days. The extra days add up to one month every three years, creating a “leap year” in the Year of Dragon. Citi property analyst Ken Yeung cites dat…
uite of radar, laser and optical sensors aligned Shenzhou with Tiangong. The capsule’s thrusters then drove it into the space lab’s docking ring. The union happened at an altitude of about 340 km (210 miles). Liu Yang operated a handheld video camera to record the moment of docking. Thirty-three-year old Liu Yang flies with Commander Jing Haipeng, 46, and fellow flight engineer, Liu W…
…crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After lift-off at 20:43 GMT, the Soyuz capsule then entered orbit and, using intricate ballistics manoeuvres, succeeded in cutting out around 30 orbits and 45 hours from the flight time to the ISS. Prior to the flight, the shortened route had been successfully tested three times by Russian Progress cargo ships, which are unmanned versions…
…ruary. Dragon’s Blood, which costs $115, is made from the red sap of the sangre de drago tree and sold-out within minutes when it first launched earlier this year. It proved so popular that there were 20,000 eager customers on the waiting list before it went on sale, with Harvey Nichols reporting “queues out the door”. It is considered a less-invasive alternative to fillers, creating a youthful co…
hinese Fireball dragon and the Hungarian Horntail dragon – on a staggered basis after two riders were thought to have been injured by loose objects. That change has now become permanent. On July 31, Carlos Montalvo, 52, from Puerto Rico, suffered a lacerated right eye while riding Dragon Challenge. The man’s lawyer says he had his eyeball removed. Universal Orlando has refused to discu…
…her more attractive. Meanwhile, research is underway for a pill that will provide SPF, negating the need for suncream, and tablets to counteract grey hair are slated to be launched by L’Oreal in 2015. Swallowable Parfum tablets are still very much on the drawing board, with no product launch date yet planned….
A US tanker aircraft has crashed after taking off from the Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan, local reports say. The cargo plane had left the US Manas airbase near the capital Bishkek, officials told AFP. The aircraft came down near the village of Chaldovar, about 160km (100 miles) west of the US Transit Center at Manas, the Kyrgyz emergencies ministry said. The emergency situations ministry said the p…
had been sailing too close to the coast. The incident comes two months after the cruise ship Costa Concordia hot rocks off the island of Giglio on Italy’s west coast, capsizing with the loss of 32 lives. …
uccessful manual docking with the Tiangong-1 laboratory module and performed a series of experiments while in space. The mission is a key step towards China’s goal of building a space station by 2020. Shenzhou 9 spacecraft carrying three Chinese crew members has returned to Earth following a 13-day mission Crew member Liu Yang hit the headlines around the world for being the first Chinese w…
…ng faded bluejeans and blue puffy vest led to the creation of a blog devoted to his dubious choices in attire called “What the F*** is Michael Jordan Wearing?”. Michael Jordan left the NBA for good in 2003. He is currently owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, one of the worst teams in the league. However, Michael Jordan retains his star power and reportedly rakes in tens of millions of a dollars a year…
Russian Soyuz capsule has returned to Earth with its three-man crew after they spent 123 days at the International Space Station. Two Russians, Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, and their American colleague Joe Acaba made the safe return in Kazakhstan on Monday morning. Another crew of three who took off in May remain on the International Space Station. Russian Soyuz capsule has returned to Eart…
Kim Kardashian was spotted in a park in Miami, Florida on Saturday with members from her family as they prepared to compete in the Miami Dragon Boat Festival. Wearing a low-cut exercise top, a pair of tight fitting leggings and matching long-sleeve jacket, Kim Kardashian flaunted her most famous assets as she stretched out and did squats on the lawn. She was joined by her mother Kris Jenner, who…
A rescue operation is under way after Volgo Balt 199 cargo ship sank in the Black Sea near the Turkish city of Istanbul. Twelve crew members were on board the Volgo Balt 199 – reportedly 11 Ukrainian nationals, and one Russian. Turkish media report that three people have been rescued and one person has died but this has not been confirmed. The Volgo Balt 199 sank off the town of Sile, in Is…
New Zealand’s oil spill response agency, Maritime New Zealand (MNZ), say that 350 tones of oil have escaped from Rena – a stranded cargo ship – which hit the ground near port of Tauranga last week. New Zealand Oil spill MNZ stated that the ship has sustained “some damage from current movement and there is a significant amount of oil leaking from the vessel.” When the vess…
the commercial market. The finished version of the Aeroscraft – expected to be ready in three years – will carry a payload of 66 tons at a speed of 120 knots, upto 18,000ft with a range of 3000 nautical miles. That could revolutionize air transport, opening up remote areas where there is practically no other means of access. It could carry relief supplies for victims in disaster areas,…
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China is about to launch its fourth manned space mission and is sending a crew of three, including the nation’s first female astronaut, to the orbiting Tiangong space lab. Chinese Shenzhou-9 capsule is set to lift off from the Jiuquan spaceport on the edge of the Gobi desert at 18:37 local time (10:37 GMT). A Long March 2F rocket will put the astronauts on a path to dock with Tiangong in a…
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