STS-112 – Spaceflight Now

September 19, 2024

Breaking News

[ September 18, 2024 ] Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket experiences abort as its Rutherford engines began firing, prior to liftoff Electron
[ September 17, 2024 ] SpaceX launches European Commission’s Galileo satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ September 15, 2024 ] Polaris Dawn crew returns to Earth with splashdown in Gulf of Mexico Mission Reports
[ September 12, 2024 ] SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from West Coast Falcon 9
[ September 12, 2024 ] First non-government spacewalk goes off without a hitch for Polaris Dawn crew Mission Reports

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

December 26, 2016 Stephen Clark

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 Justin Ray

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