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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

Indigenous Cryogenic Stage Successfully Qualified

Mahendragiri, India (SPX) Nov 19, 2007 - ISRO has achieved a significant milestone through the successful test of indigenously developed Cryogenic Stage, to be employed as the upper stage of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV). The test was conducted for its full flight duration of 720 seconds today (November 15, 2007) at Liquid Propulsion test facility at Mahendragiri, in Tamil Nadu. With this test, the indigenous Cryogenic Upper Stage has been fully qualified on the ground.

Nov 19, 2007
Legacy Reports

Northrop Grumman Demonstrates New Rocket Engine Design Using Oxygen And Methane Propellants

Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2007 - Northrop Grumman successfully hot-fire tested a radically new type of rocket engine specifically designed to use oxygen and methane propellants that range from all-gas to all-liquid at the inlet to the thruster. More than 50 separate tests demonstrated high performance, operating stability and ample design margin of this 100 lbf-thrust rocket, designated the TR408.

Nov 19, 2007
Legacy Reports

Orbital Outfitters Debuts IS3C – First-Ever Fully Functional Commercial Pressure Spacesuit

Holloman AFB NM (SPX) Nov 16, 2007 - The world's first commercial spacesuit was unveiled today by Orbital Outfitters (OO) during a press event held at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, as part of the X-Prize Cup. OO, headquartered in Washington, D.C. with affiliated operations in Los Angeles, is a company that provides emergency spacesuits and related apparel for crew and passengers riding aboard Next Generation Spaceships.

Nov 16, 2007
Legacy Reports

Crew Moves Harmony To Front Of Space Station

Houston TX (SPX) Nov 16, 2007 - The new Harmony node is now in position to receive the European and Japanese modules to be added to the International Space Station. Station crew members moved Harmony from its temporary location on the left side of the Unity node to its new home on the front of the U.S. laboratory Destiny Wednesday morning. Disengagement of the first set of bolts holding Harmony to Unity began at 3:58 a.m. EST.

Nov 16, 2007
Legacy Reports

Ariane 5 Launches Over Nine Tonne To GEO Transfer Orbit

Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Nov 15, 2007 - Ariane 5 achieved another heavy-lift record tonight (November 14), successfully placing a U.K. military relay platform and Brazil's new multi-mission telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. The mission's total payload delivery weight was 9,535 kg., which included 8,735 kg. For the two satellites, along with the associated installation/interface hardware and Ariane's SYLDA 5 dual payload dispenser system.

Nov 15, 2007
Legacy Reports

Boeing Completes Prototype Heat Shield For NASA Orion Spacecraft

St. Louis MO (SPX) Nov 14, 2007 - Boeing has completed a developmental heat shield for NASA's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) that is designed to protect future astronauts from extreme heat during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere following lunar and low-Earth orbit missions. NASA Ames Research Center last year awarded Boeing Advanced Systems a contract to deliver a Thermal Protection System (TPS) Manufacturing Demonstration Unit (MDU) for the Orion capsule as part of NASA's Constellation program to return humans to the moon and on to Mars.

Nov 14, 2007