STS-132 – Spaceflight Now

September 8, 2024

Breaking News

[ September 7, 2024 ] Starliner lands safely in New Mexico Mission Reports
[ September 6, 2024 ] As it happened: Boeing’s Starliner returned to Earth, marking the end of the Crew Flight Test mission Mission Reports
[ September 6, 2024 ] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on national security mission for the NRO Falcon 9
[ September 4, 2024 ] SpaceX launches 7,000th Starlink satellite to date on Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ September 3, 2024 ] ESA completes swan song of its Vega rocket with Sentinel-2C launch 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…May 14 and STS-132

May 14, 2015 Justin Ray

On this day in 2010, Atlantis on her next-to-final mission launches with Russia’s Rassvet mini module for the International Space Station