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Washington (AFP) - William Anders, the former US astronaut who took the historic "Earthrise" photo from space over 55 years ago, died in a plane crash on Friday at the age of 90, his family said. Anders had been piloting a small plane which crashed off the coast of Washington state on Friday morning, his son told US media. Anders was alone in the plane. His body was later recovered by a dive team, The Seattle Times reported, quoting a Coast Guard spokesperson. A member of the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968, Anders became one of the first humans to orbit the Moon, along with fellow Americans...
AFP
Boeing's company’s Starliner capsule was due to rocket away at midday with a pair of test pilots to the International Space Station for a weeklong stay. The test drive should have happened years ago. But problems kept piling up, most recently a leak that went unnoticed until the first launch attempt with a crew in early May. NASA wants a backup to SpaceX, which has been flying astronauts for four years. United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket is providing the lift from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Euronews (English)
John McFall, Astronaut in Ausbildung, ist «ziemlich optimistisch», dass er trotz eines amputierten Unterschenkels demnächst ins All fliegen kann. «Die Tests verlaufen wirklich gut», sagte der 43 Jahre alte Paralympics-Leichtathlet der Deutschen Presse-Agentur in Köln. Die Europäische Raumfahrtagentur Esa prüft derzeit, ob eine Weltraum-Mission des «Parastronauten» prinzipiell möglich wäre. «Im Moment sieht es so aus, als ob es technisch gehen würde», sagte McFall. «Auf dieser Grundlage und in Anbetracht der Esa-Ambitionen auf diesem Gebiet denke ich, dass es eine wirklich gute Chance für mich ...
DPA (German)
A Russian Soyuz rocket took off to the International Space Station on Saturday, two days after its launch was aborted last minute. The launch was originally planned for Thursday but was halted by an automatic safety system about 20 seconds before the scheduled lift-off. Head of Russia's space agency, Yuri Borisov, said a voltage drop in a power source triggered the abort. The space capsule atop the rocket separated and went into orbit eight minutes after the launch and began a two-day, 34-orbit trip to the space station. If the launch had gone as scheduled on Thursday, the journey would have b...
Euronews (English)
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