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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

Third Pair Of Massive Solar Arrays To Be Launched To Space Station

Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2007 - The third of four pairs of massive solar arrays and a second Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ), built by Lockheed Martin at its Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, will be launched aboard the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS) as early as June 8, 2007. During the 11-day STS-117 mission, astronauts will connect the package of giant solar arrays and the rotary joint - incorporated into an integrated truss segment - to the Station.

Jun 8, 2007
Legacy Reports

Delta 2 Launch To Launch COSMO-SkyMed Satellite

Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2007 - Vandenberg is scheduled to launch a Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Thales Alenia-Space COSMO-SkyMed Satellite, Thursday at 7:21 p.m. from Space Launch Complex-2 on north Vandenberg. The launch has a 13-minute window of opportunity. Col. Stephen Tanous, 30th Space Wing commander, will be the spacelift commander for this mission. The Delta II will be launched in the 7420-10 configuration.

Jun 8, 2007
Legacy Reports

NASA Sets Hubble Mission Launch For September 2008

Houston (UPI) June 7, 2007 - NASA has targeted Sept. 10, 2008 for the launch of the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials in Houston said space shuttle Atlantis will transport seven astronauts to repair and upgrade the orbiting observatory during the 11-day mission. The servicing is designed to allow Hubble to operate through 2013.

Jun 7, 2007
Legacy Reports

Atlantis Ready For First Shuttle Flight Of The Year

Washington (AFP) Jun 06, 2007 - After a three-month delay, Atlantis is ready to blast off Friday on the first space shuttle mission of the year as NASA presses on with efforts to complete the International Space Station. Atlantis was originally scheduled to launch in March, but a freak hail storm damaged the shuttle's massive external fuel tank as the orbiter stood on its Florida launch pad, forcing NASA to bring it back to its hangar for repairs.

Jun 6, 2007
Legacy Reports

Space Station Holed By Meteorite, Crew Complete EVA To Install Debris Shields

Moscow (AFP) Jun 06, 2007 - A mini-meteorite has left a bullet-sized hole in a module of the International Space Station (ISS), but the three-person US-Russian team of astronauts inside are not in danger, a Russian official said Wednesday. The puncture, in an outer pumping component on the module, was detected in the Russia Zaria module of the station during a spacewalk by the two Russian cosmonauts on board, the spokesman for the Russian space agency, Vladimir Solovyev, said.

Jun 6, 2007
Legacy Reports

NASA Cutting Crew Holds It Together For Safe Delivery To Station

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 05, 2007 - Greg Dorsey and Steve Page stood behind a panel of glass looking over a computer readout. In the next room, a router carved a perfect channel just like the one the one the operators prescribed on the computer. The two technicians could be mistaken for woodworkers machining elaborate designs into a cabinet or dining table, and that would be partially correct. They are carving elaborate designs.

Jun 5, 2007
Legacy Reports

Successful Design Review And Engine Test Bring Boeing X-51A Closer To Flight

St. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 04, 2007 - Boeing's X-51A WaveRider Scramjet Engine Demonstrator recently completed a Critical Design Review (CDR) and fired its engine for the first time -- two major program milestones necessary for first flight. The X-51A program, managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate, is a consortium of the U.S. Air Force, DARPA, NASA, Boeing and Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne to demonstrate hypersonic flight capability.

Jun 4, 2007
Legacy Reports

China Launches Communications Satellite SinoSat-3

Xichang, China (SPX) Jun 01, 2007 - China on early Friday morning launched SinoSat-3, a communications satellite for radio and television broadcasting, aboard a Long March-3A carrier rocket, marking the 100th flight of its Long March series. The satellite, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwest Sichuan province at 0:08 a.m. (Beijing Time), separated from the rocket about 24 minutes after lift-off, before entering the geosynchronous orbit, data from the northwest Xi'an Satellite Control center show.

Jun 1, 2007