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Old articles

Featured article: From Wednesday 11th January 2006 until Tuesday 17th January 2006:

The Space Shuttle Orbiter Pathfinder (unofficial Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-098) is a 75-ton Space Shuttle mock-up made of steel. It was initially built and used by NASA to practice handling and moving of actual Space Shuttles (as made possible by the mock-up's similarity in size, weight and shape). This allowed facilities to be tested without requiring the use of Enterprise.

Featured article: From Tuesday 17th January 2006 until Friday 10th March 2006:

New Horizons is a NASA unmanned spacecraft designed to fly by Pluto and its moons (including Charon) and transmit images and data back to Earth. Mission planners hope that NASA will approve plans to continue the mission with a fly-by of a Kuiper Belt Object and return further data. A consortium of organizations, led by Southwest Research Institute and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has built the craft. The mission's principal investigator is S. Alan Stern of Southwest Research.

Featured article: From Friday 10th March 2006 until Friday 24th March 2006:

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multipurpose spacecraft, launched August 12, 2005 to advance human understanding of Mars through detailed observation, to examine potential landing sites for future surface missions, and to provide a high-data-rate communications relay for those missions. It is intended to orbit for four years, and to become Mars' fourth active artificial satellite.

Featured article: From Friday 10th March 2006 until Saturday 8th April 2006:

The Falcon 1 is a semi-reusable launch vehicle, designed and manufactured by SpaceX to provide commercial launch services. The two stage to orbit rocket uses Lox/RP-1 for both stages, the first powered by a single Merlin engine and the second powered by a single Kestrel engine.

It is the world's first privately funded and developed liquid fueled space launch vehicle, and is currently priced at US$6.7 million. Falcon 1's maiden flight is scheduled for a five-day window that opens March 20, 2006 [1]. The launch was planned for 21.00 March 24, 2006 UTC. The launch is proceeding nominally on revised schedule to launch at 22.30 UTC.

Featured article: From Saturday 8th April until Friday 30th June:

Vostok 1 was the first manned space mission. Launched on April 12, 1961, Vostok 1 took Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space, the first time anyone had ever journeyed beyond the Earth's atmosphere and the first time anyone went into orbit. Gagarin orbited the Earth once, in 108 minutes, and returned unharmed, ejecting from the Vostok capsule 7 km above the ground and parachuting separately to the ground (the capsule's parachute landing was too rough for cosmonauts to risk).

The spacecraft altitude control was run by an automated system. Medical staff and spacecraft engineers were unsure how a human being might react to weightlessness. For this reason, the pilot's flight controls were locked out to prevent Gagarin from taking manual control. Retrofire took place off the west coast of Africa, near Angola, about 8000 km from the desired landing place. The liquid fueled retros fired for about 42 seconds.

After retrofire, the equipment module unexpectedly remained attached to the reentry module by a bundle of wires. The two halves of the craft were supposed to separate ten seconds after retrofire, but this did not happen until 10 minutes had passed. The spacecraft went through wild gyrations before the wires burned through and the descent module settled into the proper reentry attitude.

Featured article: From Friday 30th June to Sunday 15th October:

Space Shuttle Discovery (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a NASA Space Shuttle.

First flown in 1984, Discovery is the third operational space shuttle, and the oldest remaining in service. Discovery has performed both research and International Space Station (ISS) assembly missions.

The spacecraft takes her name from previous ships of exploration named Discovery, primarily HMS Discovery, the sailing ship that accompanied famous explorer James Cook on his third and final major voyage. Others include Henry Hudson's ship Discovery which he used in 1610–1611 to search for a Northwest Passage, and RRS Discovery, a vessel used for expeditions to Antarctica in 1901-1904 by Scott and Shackleton (and still preserved as a museum). The shuttle shares a name with Discovery One, the spaceship from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Discovery was the shuttle that launched the Hubble Space Telescope. The second and third Hubble Space Telescope service missions were also conducted by Discovery. She has also launched the Ulysses probe and three TDRS satellites. Discovery has been chosen twice as the return to flight orbiter, first as the return to flight orbiter after the 1986 Challenger disaster in 1988, and as the orbiter for the return to flight mission in July 2005, after the 2003 Columbia disaster. Discovery also carried Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn, who was 77 at the time, back into space during STS-95 on October 29, 1998, making him the oldest human being to venture into space.

2006

2007

Week 27 2007 – Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
Week 28 2007 – Joseph A. Walker
Week 29 2007 – Soyuz T-10-1
Week 30 2007 – New Horizons
Week 31 2007 – none
Week 32 2007 – Space adaptation syndrome
Week 33 2007 – STS-118
Week 34 2007 – Merlin
Week 35 2007 – Timeline of Space Shuttle missions
Week 36 2007 – Luna 2
Week 37 2007 – Soyuz T-10-1
Week 38 2007 – Apollo 8
Week 39 2007 – Apollo program
Week 40 2007 – Sputnik 1
Week 41 2007 – Guiana Space Centre
Week 42 2007 – Richard H. Truly
Week 43 2007 – Prospero X-3
Week 44 2007 – Atmospheric re-entry
Week 45 2007 – Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Week 46 2007 – Dryden Flight Research Center
Week 47 2007 – Astrophilately
Week 48 2007 – Project Highwater
Week 49 2007 – Ares V
Week 50 2007 – Vehicle Assembly Building
Week 51 2007 – SpaceX Dragon
Week 52 2007 – Altair (spacecraft)

2008

2009

Week 27 2009 - List of Salyut Expeditions
Week 28 2009 - Ariel 1
Week 29 2009 - Saturn V
Week 30 2009 - Apollo 11
Week 31 2009 - Progress M1-5
Week 32 2009 - Project Gemini
Week 33 2009 - Huygens probe
Week 34 2009 - Exploration of Mars
Week 35 2009 - Mars Express
Week 36 2009 - Proton (rocket)
Week 37 2009 - Proton (rocket)
Week 38 2009 - Apollo 8
Week 39 2009 - Mars Climate Orbiter
Week 40 2009 - None
Week 41 2009 - Soyuz 6
Week 42 2009 - None
Week 43 2009 - None
Week 44 2009 - None
Week 45 2009 - None
Week 46 2009 - None
Week 47 2009 - None
Week 48 2009 - None
Week 49 2009 - None
Week 50 2009 - None
Week 51 2009 - None
Week 52 2009 - Apollo 8
Week 53 2009 - Delta IV

2010

Week 1 2010 - 2009 in spaceflight
Week 2 2010 - International Space Station
Week 3 2010 - None
Week 4 2010 - None
Week 5 2010 - None
Week 6 2010 - International Space Station
Week 7 2010 - Cupola (ISS module)
Week 8 2010 - White Sands Missile Range
Week 9 2010 - Skynet (satellites)
Week 10 2010 - Giotto mission
Week 11 2010 - Ariane 4
Week 12 2010 - None
Week 13 2010 - None
Week 14 2010 - Ames Research Center
Week 15 2010 - Scout (rocket family)
Week 16 2010 - Space Shuttle Columbia
Week 17 2010 - TBD
Week 18 2010 - TBD
Week 19 2010 - TBD
Week 20 2010 - TBD
Week 21 2010 - TBD
Week 22 2010 - TBD
Week 23 2010 - TBD
Week 24 2010 - TBD
Week 25 2010 - TBD
Week 26 2010 - TBD