Recently in Space Category

While we were in Florida last week the wife was afforded the opportunity to watch the Space Shuttle Launch. Not from right there of course but Disney is actually not too far from the Space Coast so you get a pretty good view as the shuttles take off.

During the flight crew members Michael Fossum (pictured to the right) and Ronald Garan Jr take a spacewalk in order to do some work on the ISS' new lab, Kibo.

The raw video from the Associated Press shows a portion of the space walk.

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A huge unmanned European transport ship capable of delivering several tons of cargo to the ISS has been cleared to launch on Sunday. The Automated Transfer Vehicle has been named Jules Verne and will be blasted into space from a modified European Ariane 5 rocket which is going to launch from Kourou, French Guinea.

The various space agencies are hoping that the ATV will be able to take over many of the supply runs that bring water, food, fuel and spare parts, particularly after NASA scraps the space shuttle program in five years.

Depending on the life span of the vehicle, the European Space Agency plans to build a total of five of them