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German Astronaut's ISS Flight Delayed
Moscow (AFP) May 03, 2005 German astronaut Thomas Reiter's mission to the International Space Station is likely to be postponed to September because of delays in the launch of the US space shuttle, Russia's space agency told ITAR-TASS news agency Tuesday. "We expect that he will fly to the ISS in September when the second shuttle is sent into orbit and will return in to earth in February 2006, also with the shuttle crew," Roskosmos representative Vyacheslav Davidenko was quoted as saying. Reiter was to become the first European citizen to fly a long-term mission to the ISS in July but shuttle launches were delayed by NASA last week to avoid a repeat of the deadly 2003 Columbia disaster. Reiter has been training for the mission in a facility near Moscow since November with Russian and American astronauts who are scheduled to fly an earlier shuttle mission to the ISS. NASA officials have been cautious since determining that a stray piece of insulating foam pierced Columbia's protective outer skin on liftoff February 1, 2003, leading to its disintegration and the death of all seven astronauts on board when the damaged shuttle re-entered the earth's atmosphere. The US space agency's three other shuttles have been grounded ever since the accident. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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