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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

Eileen Collins: An Astronaut’s Endless Endeavor

Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2007 - An astronaut's work, it seems, is never done. Eileen Collins retired in May, but by October she still hadn't found time to finish cleaning out her office. I'm still answering mail from 2005, she said. I haven't wound down yet. I've been extremely busy. Of course, that statement could also apply to the past three decades of Collins' life. In 1976, when Collins was a college sophomore, the Air Force announced it would begin training women as pilots. NASA followed suit in 1978 and began accepting women into the shuttle program - just about the time Collins was deciding what to do with her life.

Jan 12, 2007
Legacy Reports

PSLV Successfully Launches Four Satellites

Sriharikota, India (SPX) Jan 10, 2007 - In its tenth flight conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, today (January 10, 2007), ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C7, successfully launched four satellites -- India's CARTOSAT-2 and Space capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1), Indonesia's LAPAN-TUBSAT and Argentina's PEHUENSAT-1 into a 635 km high polar orbit. For the first time, a Dual Launch Adopter (DLA) was used in PSLV to accommodate two primary satellites in tandem.

Jan 10, 2007
Legacy Reports

Microsoft Vista Launch Promoted With Space Ride Prize

Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 09, 2007 - A Microsoft online puzzle game launched this week promises to send the winner on a rocket ride into orbit around the Earth. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant teamed with computer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices to promote the new Vista operating system with Vanishing Point, a large-scale online and offline collaborative puzzle game. Microsoft is to launch the home version of Vista on January 30.

Jan 9, 2007
Legacy Reports

India To Launch Latest Space Rocket

Bangalore, India (AFP) Jan 09, 2007 - India will launch a rocket into outer space Wednesday carrying four payloads including a capsule recovery experiment meant for future manned missions, top officials said Monday. The Indian Space Research Organisation said the rocket will also put into orbit a 680-kilogramme (1,496 pound) remote sensing satellite named CARTOSAT-2, along with an Indonesian earth observation satellite and another one from Argentina.

Jan 9, 2007
Legacy Reports

Europe Forges Long-Term Strategy For Space Exploration

Edinburgh, Scotland (SPX) Jan 09, 2007 - Representatives from the UK and other European political, industrial and scientific sectors, together with members of the general public are helping to shape the future direction of space exploration. At the first in a series of stakeholder consultation workshops held in Edinburgh on the 8/9th January 2007, hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the British National Space Centre (BNSC), the future strategy for ESA's long-term exploration of the solar system and beyond was debated by the various stakeholder groups from Europe in consultation with colleagues from across the world.

Jan 9, 2007
Legacy Reports

Arianespace To Launch ProtoStar I

Paris, France (SPX) Jan 09, 2007 - Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall has announced during his annual January press conference that Arianespace will launch the ProtoStar I satellite for ProtoStar. This is the 280th launch contract won by Arianespace since its inception in March 1980. ProtoStar I will be placed into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, during the first half of 2008.

Jan 9, 2007
Legacy Reports

To The Space Station And Beyond In High Definition

New York NY (SPX) Jan 04, 2007 - Images from the world's first HDTV broadcast from space will again flash across TV screens around the world, as the Discovery Channel replays Space Station Live: HD, beginning at 9 p.m. on Jan. 3. The program features additional footage that highlights accomplishments attained since the orginal progam aired on Nov. 15, 2006. On that day, NASA made history with the first live HDTV broadcasts from space, in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Discovery HD Theater and Japanese broadcast network NHK.

Jan 4, 2007
Legacy Reports

Draper-Developed Trajectory Maneuvers ISS Without Using Propellant

Houston TX (SPX) Jan 04, 2007 - A new method developed by Draper Laboratory for performing large angle rotations of the International Space Station (ISS) was flight tested successfully on November 5. By scheduling a series of commands to the ISS Control Moment Gyro (CMG) attitude controller, the ISS was maneuvered through a pre-planned trajectory, referred to as the Zero Propellant Maneuver (ZPM). The ZPM is accomplished using the current Station controllers and effectors without modification to flight software.

Jan 4, 2007