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Space Travel Editorial Team
Editorial Team

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

Columbus Installed In New Home On ISS

Paris, France (ESA) Feb 13, 2008 - The European Columbus laboratory has completed its voyage to the International Space Station. Columbus was officially attached to the right side of the Harmony module at 22:44 CET this evening. ESA astronaut Leopold Eyharts, who was at the controls of the Station's robotic arm for the final capture and initial berthing of Columbus, reported to Mission Control, The European Columbus module is now part of the ISS.

Feb 13, 2008
Legacy Reports

Canadian Astronauts Julie Payette And Robert Thirsk To Go On Space Missions In 2009

Longueuil, Canada (SPX) Feb 13, 2008 - The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), has announced that two Canadian Space Agency astronauts would be taking part in space missions in 2009. Guided by our Science and Technology Strategy, we are investing in talented, skilled and creative Canadians like Julie Payette and Dr. Robert Thirsk who have dedicated their professional lives in the service of discovery, said Minister Prentice.

Feb 13, 2008
Legacy Reports

ESA Astronaut Frank De Winne To Spend Six Months On The ISS In 2009

Paris, France (ESA) Feb 12, 2008 - With the Columbus mission well under way, the space station programme has assigned crews for the next flight opportunities. Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne joins Expedition 19 and will spend six months on the ISS in 2009. In May 2009, he will fly together with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS.

Feb 12, 2008
Legacy Reports

Propulsion Technology Mostly Unchanged After 50 Years

Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 12, 2008 - Although it's been a half century since America entered the space age, the basic propulsion concepts used to push Explorer I into space will be the same type of propulsion that the nation will use to begin the next half century of space exploration. It was January 31, 1958 when a Redstone-Jupiter C rocket developed in Huntsville, Ala., lifted the 30-pound artificial satellite into space.

Feb 12, 2008