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Space Travel Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Space Travel Editorial Team produces Space Travel's coverage of human spaceflight and access to space. We report on launch, crewed missions and space tourism, and the propulsion, vehicles and human factors of getting people to space. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Space Travel takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Legacy Reports

NASA Awards Space Station Water Contract To Hamilton Sundstrand

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2008 - NASA has awarded a sole-source contract to Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International for water production services aboard the International Space Station. The firm fixed-price contract has a potential value of $65 million and extends through Sept. 30, 2014. Hamilton Sundstrand will provide equipment that uses the station's excess carbon dioxide and hydrogen to produce water and methane.

Apr 16, 2008
Legacy Reports

China Launches New Space Tracking Ship To Serve Shenzhou VII

Shanghai (XNA) Apr 15, 2008 - China launched a new space tracking ship on Saturday, expected to serve the Shenzhou VII spacewalk mission scheduled for autumn, said a spokesman of the maritime space surveying and controlling operation. The new space tracking ship was the sister ship of the Yuanwang-5, which was put into use in September, said the spokesman, adding the two vessels would play a key role in the Shenzhou VII mission.

Apr 15, 2008
Legacy Reports

NASA’s Marshall Center Readies Historic, Apollo-Era Test Stand For Testing Of Ares I

Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 - Engineers have begun preparations to renovate the historic, 360-foot-high Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. The test stand, used in the 1960s to test the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket and later the integrated space shuttle system, soon will be used for the integrated vehicle ground vibration test of the nation's new Ares I rocket and Orion crew capsule.

Apr 15, 2008
Legacy Reports

First ICO Bird Soars As Atlas V Lofts Its Heavist Load Yet

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 15, 2008 - A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched the ICO-G1 satellite at 4:12 p.m. EDT, today. Blasting off from Space Launch Complex 41 here, it marked the first ULA commercial launch of an Atlas V vehicle procured by Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services. The ICO-G1 satellite is also the heaviest satellite launched to date by an Atlas V, weighing 6,634 kg or 14,625 lbm when fueled.

Apr 15, 2008