NASA Launches the International Space Station on Fourth of July

By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on July 4th, 2011%
International Space Station on Fourth of July

The International Space Station will be making a series of night passes all over the US this Fourth of July.

The space station could be visible to anybody who knows where to locate it in the sky.

Right now, it is a home to Satoshi Furuwaka, Mike Fossum, Ron Garan, Alexander Samokutyaev, Sergei Volkov and Andrey Borisenko (Commander), all coming from different countries like Japan, Russia and the United States.

NASA proclaimed that they will launch its ultimate historic flight for the space shuttle program on July 8.  There are four astronauts who . . . → Read More: NASA Launches the International Space Station on Fourth of July

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ISS Orbit Gets Adjustments from ATV-2

By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on June 6th, 2011%
ISS Orbit

Mission Control of Russia increased the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2.3 miles (3.74 km.) to 215.2 miles (346.4 km.), spokesperson of Mission Control said.

The spokesperson said, “The adjustment was carried out with the help of thrusters of Europe’s ATV-2 Johannes Kepler space freighter.”

The operation lasted for 897 seconds or about 15 minutes.

The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-2) of European Space Agency, which docked with the ISS on February 24, is programmed to perform two more the same operations before undocking from the station on June 21.  The . . . → Read More: ISS Orbit Gets Adjustments from ATV-2

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