China has successfully tested the spacesuits and airlock to be used in its first-ever spacewalk during a spaceflight later this year, the nation's state-run media has reported.
The centerpiece contribution to the space station by the European Space Agency -- the Columbus science research module -- was added to the outposted in February 2008 by the shuttle Atlantis crew.
Two students are currently living, working and communicating with the outside world as if they were on a mission to Mars. Whenever they go outside their small, round habitat where eight people are spending a two-week "mission," they don spacesuits and pass through an airlock. When they send e-mail, it takes 20 minutes before the recipient can see it -- the time it takes for radio waves to travel
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Today is February's fifth Friday, because of its 29 Leap Year days; the last time February had 5 Fridays was in 1980 and next time will be in 2036.
Last week, two MIT students began living, working and communicating with the outside world as if they were on a mission to Mars. Whenever they go outside their small, round habitat where eight people are spending a two-week "mission," they don spacesuits and pass through an airlock. When they send e-mail, it takes 20 minutes before the recipient can see it-the time it takes for radio waves to
Europe will receive its own access to the International Space Station by means of the Automated Transfer Vehicle space transporter. As the most complex spacecraft ever to be built in western Europe, the ATV represents a significant milestone for European space.
by Staff Writers Beijing (XNA) Feb 22, 2008 China has passed initial ground tests for its Shenzhou VII spaceship airlock module and an extravehicular spacesuit, Thursday's China daily quoted a top scientist as saying.
All ISS systems continue to function nominally, except those noted previously or below. Russian Holiday: "Defender of the Fatherland Day" (Dyen' zaschitnika Otechestva),- also: Men's Day (Dyen' Muzhchin). Underway: Week 19 of Increment 16.
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