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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

Senate Committee Chairs React To NASA Report On ISS National Laboratory

Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2007 - NASA has issued a report to Congress on the planned use of the U.S. portion of the International Space Station (ISS) as a national laboratory. U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Chairman Mark Udall (D-CO) issued the following reactions to NASA's Report to Congress on the ISS:

Jun 26, 2007
Legacy Reports

Spacehab Subsidiary Wins New NASA Launch Processing Contract At Vandenberg

Houston TX (SPX) Jun 26, 2007 - Spacehab reports that its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has been awarded a new contract by NASA for payload processing services for expendable launch vehicles (ELVs) from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) at the Western Range in California. With a value not to exceed $35 million, this indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quality (IDIQ) contract is for payload processing support on several upcoming NASA spacecraft missions.

Jun 26, 2007
Legacy Reports

Moon Jobs May Crater Suggests Rutgers-Camden Researcher

Camden NJ (SPX) Jun 25, 2007 - Think your job is tough? Can't wait for summer vacation to get away from it all? Just wait, says a Rutgers University-Camden researcher. In the not-too-distant future, some jobs will challenge workers placed far, far away from it all. On the moon, in fact. According to Chester Spell, an associate professor of management at the Rutgers School of Business-Camden, the lunar settlements of tomorrow - or, for that matter, the space stations of today - carry long-term implications for the mental health of employees working in isolation for extended periods.

Jun 25, 2007
Legacy Reports

Lack Of Willingness To Discuss NASA Budget Deeply Disappointing

Washington, DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2007 - House Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN), Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Chairman Mark Udall (D-CO), and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Nick Lampson (D-TX) have issued the following statement in response to the Administration's letter rejecting their request for a meeting of Members of Congress with President Bush to discuss NASA's budgetary situation:

Jun 25, 2007
Legacy Reports

NASA Basks In Shuttle Success Amid Tumultuous Year

Cape Canaveral FL (AFP) Jun 24, 2007 - The successful shuttle Atlantis mission has finally given NASA something to celebrate this year after being rocked by an astronaut's arrest and a shooting at its Houston campus. The US space agency put the focus back on its space exploration mission as Atlantis safely landed Friday with seven astronauts aboard, completing a successful flight during which they expanded the International Space Station.

Jun 24, 2007
Legacy Reports

Sunita Williams Makes Giant Leaps For Womankind

Washington (AFP) Jun 23, 2007 - Commander Sunita Williams, who on Friday became the woman who has spent the longest time in space, joined NASA as a navy experimental test pilot and flew helicopters in the 1991 Gulf war. Williams, 41, said her Indian heritage is a source of pride for her and others. I am half Indian and I've got a, I'm sure, a group of Indian people who are looking forward to seeing this second person of Indian origin flying up in space, she said in a pre-flight NASA interview.

Jun 23, 2007
Legacy Reports

DARPA And Australia Collaborate On Successful Hypersonic Flight Test

Arlington, VA (SPX) Jun 22, 2007 - The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation announced that the Hypersonic Collaborative Australia/United States Experiment (HyCAUSE) program has successfully flown a hydrogen-fueled, axisymmetric, inward-turning scramjet engine. A two-stage Talos Mk-11/Castor 1 XM-33 sounding rocket lifted off June 15 from the Woomera Test Range in Southern Australia at approximately 12:05 pm. (local time).

Jun 22, 2007
Legacy Reports

Weather Delays Atlantis Landing To Friday

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 22, 2007 - The STS-117 crew is getting an extra day in space thanks to poor weather conditions at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Space shuttle Atlantis has five landing opportunities available Friday, with the first at 2:18 p.m. EDT in Florida. Thunderstorms in the vicinity of Kennedy forced flight controllers to wave off both opportunities Thursday. Controllers and the Spaceflight Meteorology Group will closely monitor forecasts for Friday's opportunities in Florida and at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Jun 22, 2007
Legacy Reports

NASA Nanotechnology Space Sensor Test Successful In Orbit

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 20, 2007 - NASA recently tested the first nanotechnology-based electronic device to fly in space. The test showed that the nanosensor could monitor trace gases inside a spaceship. This technology could lead to smaller, more capable environmental monitors and smoke detectors in future crew habitats. NASA's Nano ChemSensor Unit hitched a ride to Earth orbit on March 9, 2007, as a secondary payload experiment on the U.S. Naval Academy's MidSTAR-1 satellite. The sensor test was powered on May 24.

Jun 20, 2007
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Astronauts Set For Return To Earth On Shuttle Atlantis

Washington DC (AFP) Jun 20, 2007 - US astronauts were back on board the shuttle Atlantis preparing to undock Tuesday for the long flight back to Earth, after wrapping up their mission at the International Space Station, NASA said. The shuttle team said goodbye to the station's crew and the hatches closed between Atlantis and the station (ISS) on Monday, the space agency said in a statement, after a mission that saw members of the Atlantis team venture out four times to install new solar energy equipment.

Jun 20, 2007