After six months on board the International Space Station (ISS), Expedition 24 and 25 crews return safely to Earth. – The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 25 landed safely in Kazakhstan just before midnight on Thursday (Friday morning Kazakhstan time). The trio — Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin — undocked in the Soyuz TMA-19 at 8:23 p.m. ending their fiv…
A vehicle belonging to the production crew of Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York was robbed of $30,000 worth of equipment while parked on set in the Big Apple last month. The robbery reportedly occured as Housewives stars Alex McCord, her husband Simon Van Kempen, Sonja Morgan, and Ramona Singer dined at the Emperor’s Brand [...]
China is demanding that Japan immediately free the captain of a fishing boat, whose crew was released and flown home earlier Monday. The release of the crew follows a tense diplomatic standoff between Beijing and Tokyo.
Kate Price and Alex Reid have jetted to Thailand for a baby-making honeymoon, and that too with a camera crew in tow. In fact, Alex has even promised ITV bosses plenty of “actionâ€. The 34-year-old cage fighter hopes that going back will boost their sex life and help Kate, 32, conceive. “It is somewhere we [...]
Trade unions need to think hard if they are to survive in the age of austerity
THE past few months have produced so many examples of corporate incompetence—think of BP or Goldman Sachs or Toyota—that it almost comes as a relief to discover incompetence on the other side of the class struggle. Unite, the British union representing British Airways’ cabin crew, is providing a textbook example of how not to handle an industrial dispute.
The crew’s protracted series of strikes has been doomed from the start. BA has plenty of cash on hand and the support of the only employees who can instantly bring an airline to its knees, the pilots. The cabin crew, in contrast, are easily replaced. But the union is responding to growing setbacks by raising the stakes: complaining bitterly about “scabs” and, having already disrupted holiday after holiday, planning to organise another set of strikes over the summer. …
Two crew members of space shuttle Atlantis’ final flight conducted the third and final spacewalk of the mission, installing the final set of batteries on the International Space Station (ISS). – Space shuttle Atlantis crew members Michael Good and Garrett Reisman
installed the final new battery, battery F, on one of the four solar arrays on
the International Space Station (ISS) during the missions third and final
spacewalk. All six batteries the STS-132
mission delivered to the station …
The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis is conducting the second of three planned spacewalks today, this time to replace three of six batteries on a solar array powering the International Space Station (ISS). – NASA announced spacewalkers Steve Bowen and Michael Good of the
space shuttle Atlantis installed the first of three new batteries,
battery A on the B side of one of the four solar arrays on the
International Space Station (ISS). The spacewalkers completed the
installation at two hours and 27 min…
Pan-United Corporation says that a tugboat, PU 2007, belonging to its subsidiary, P.U. Vision, with nine crew onboard, went missing while in Kuantan waters since the night of 19 April. After failure to contact the crew onboard and suspecting that the vessels had been hijacked, the group immediately reported the incident to Singapore’s Port Operation and Control Centre.
Using the bus loaded in the space shuttle Discovery, the crew begins moving more than 17,000 pounds of cargo for the International Space Station. On April 9 the crew begins the first of three spacewalks.
– The space Discovery’s crew began unloading the Leo nardo
Multipurpose Logistics Module, relocating the cargo from Discoverys
payload bay to a port on the Harmony node at 12:24 a.m. EDT Thursday.
The Italian-built modules more than 17,000 pounds of cargo includes
four experiment racks along w…
Citrix Systems’ virtual desktop over a high-latency satellite connection gives astronauts on the International Space Station more private access to desktop applications and Websites.
– Citrix Systems announced April 6, quot;NASA has incorporated Citrix
XenDesktop with high-definition HDX technology into the recently launched Crew
Support LAN, which provides astronauts on
the International Space Station … with direct, private access to familiar
desktop applications and Websi…
Final Harry Potter book’s secret film script was abandoned in a pub, thanks to the movie’s crew who went on a bender, it has emerged.
The script – marked “Private and Confidential” – which contains 118 pages reveal changes from novel The Deathly Hallows.
A reader gave it to The Sun who found it at a [...]
U.S. space shuttle Endeavour arrived back on Earth after a two-week mission to install the 16-ton Tranquility node and its attendant cupola on the International Space Station, which will give the facilitys crew more docking space for vehicles. The cupola includes windows for a sweeping view of Earth, the better for crew to manipulate a robotic arm used to help dock craft heading for the station. Endeavours was one of the few remaining missions before NASA plans on mothballing its shuttles by the end of the year.
– The shuttle Endeavour made a rare nighttime landing at
Kennedy
Space
Center Feb. 22, touching down at
10:20
pm EST. The vehicles six-member crew had successfully
completed a two-week mission to install the last major component of the
International Space Station, undocking from that orbital f…
Spacewalkers Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken face their first major task of the 13-day mission to the International Space Station as they prepare to unload and begin the installation of the Tranquility node.
– The crew of the space shuttle Endeavour begins the first major portion of its
mission to the International Space Station Feb. 12 when astronauts Nicholas
Patrick and Robert Behnken will unload and prepare to install the Tranquility
mode, the last U.S.
portion of the ISS.
The new node will add…
Somali pirates have freed a Pakistan-flagged vessel and its crew of 29 after using it to hijack a UK-owned car carrier in the Indian Ocean, a maritime watchdog reported Tuesday. The Shazaib , alternatively known as Shahbaig , and its crew of 29 Pakistanis were released by the pirates on
The International Space Station’s shorthanded crew busy themselves with science and maintenance projects while awaiting the arrival of three new astronauts.
– Three new astronauts are expected to arrive at the International Space
Station Dec. 22 after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
Dec. 20. Docking is scheduled for 5:54 p.m.
EST.
NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency a…
On their first full day in space, astronauts use the space shuttle Atlantis’ robotic arm and orbiter boom to photograph the tiles of its wing’s leading edges and nose cap, looking for heat shield damage.
– The six astronauts onboard the space shuttle Atlantis spent their first full
day in space inspecting the space craft for any heat shield damage that may
have occurred during what NASA called a quot;picture-perfect
launch day quot; Nov. 16. Atlantis is expected to dock at the International
Space…
Russian investigators say a heavy-lift military cargo plane has crashed on takeoff in Siberia, killing all 11 crew members on board. The four-engine Il-76 was flying from Mirny in the Sakha Republic to the city of Irkutsk. Investigators say the plane was only 15 metres off the ground
China has warned its ships to avoid waters off Somalia where pirates seized a Chinese coal ship on Monday, as Beijing sought to recover the vessel and crew. Somali pirates took control of the De Xin Hai and its crew of 25 Chinese nationals about 700 nautical miles east of the failed
A Jat Airways Boeing 737-300 skidded off the runway this morning in Istanbul; all passengers and crew are safe. Turkish officials announced that all 125 passengers and six crew members were “safely evacuated”.
A Jat Airways Boeing 737-300 skidded off the runway this morning in Istanbul; all passengers and crew are safe. Turkish officials announced that all 125 passengers and six crew members were “safely evacuated”.
