STS-112 – Spaceflight Now

June 26, 2022

Breaking News

[ June 24, 2022 ] NASA targeting late summer launch for first Artemis moon rocket Artemis
[ June 23, 2022 ] European probe images Mercury’s cratered landscape on second flyby Mission Reports
[ June 23, 2022 ] Second segment added to Starship launch tower at Kennedy Space Center Mission Reports
[ June 23, 2022 ] ULA’s next launch for Space Force is less than a week away Atlas 5
[ June 22, 2022 ] Ariane 5 rocket deploys satellites for Malaysia and India Ariane 5

Piers Sellers, shuttle astronaut and renowned climate researcher, dies at 61

December 26, 2016

Former astronaut Piers Sellers, a British-born climate scientist who flew on three space shuttle missions to help construct the International Space Station, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.

OTD…Oct. 7 and STS-112

October 7, 2015

#OTD in 2002…Atlantis launched the outward expansion of the space station’s truss backbone