Although it poses no immediate threat to the astronauts in orbit, a malfunctioning cooling pump on the International Space Station required maintenance on Wednesday. A similar failure occurred on the ISS without much incident in 2010.
Although it poses no immediate threat to the astronauts in orbit, a malfunctioning cooling pump on the International Space Station required maintenance on Wednesday. A similar failure occurred on the ISS without much incident in 2010.
In recent years, there have been few space projects as exciting as the International Space Station, or ISS. Even though it is the 9th space station to take orbit, it is the first to house a full-time crew and a dedicated research laboratory.
Russias space program shuffled its Soyuz launch schedule so that the Olympic Torch could make its way to the International Space Station this week for a photo op. Oh yeah, and three extra crew members, temporarily bringing the ISSs population to 9 people, up from its usual six. NASA streamed the launch of Russias Soyuz TMA-11M from […]
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