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 by Staff Writers Wallops Flight Facility, United States (AFP) Nov 17, 2018
An unmanned Cygnus cargo ship blasted off Saturday toward the International Space Station, marking the second supply mission in 24 hours destined to carry food and supplies to the astronauts living in space. An Antares rocket operated by Northrop Grumman lit up the night sky at 4:01 am (0901 GMT) as it propelled the craft loaded with 7,400 pounds (3,350 kilograms) of gear into space. On Friday, a Russian Soyuz rocket launched its first cargo mission to the space station since a Soyuz rocket carrying astronauts failed last month. The successful liftoff of the Progress cargo craft toward the orbiting outpost was seen as a rehearsal for the next crewed mission on December 3. That flight will carry Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, and NASA's Anne McClain to the ISS. Since the retirement of the US space shuttle program in 2011, Russia has the only nation capable of sending people to space. During the aborted launch on October 11, Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague made an emergency landing and escaped unharmed. It was the first such incident in the history of post-Soviet space travel. The Russian cargo ship is scheduled to dock at the space station on Sunday, followed by the Cygnus on Monday, NASA said.
Science on the cusp: sounding rockets head north Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 Gazing up at the night sky from the edge of the Norwegian sea, you know you're in an unusual place. The frigid winds stream across an open sky, painted by the dance of the northern lights. Outer space almost seems closer here. It turns out, that's not so far from the truth. This special place is known as the northern polar cusp. It's one of only two places on Earth where particles from the Sun have direct access to Earth's atmosphere - and the familiar laws of terrestrial physics can take a ... read more
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