Note: The launch of the CRS-5
is set for 6:20 am ET, January 6, on SpaceX-5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, adjacent to Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
I thought it would be important to put up a blog post on the October 28, 2014, loss of Orb-3 and the SSEP Mission 6
Yankee Clipper payload of experiments, something that could capture the experience in that moment. I think it is an important story to share with the thousands of SSEP students across the nation and in Canada who are invested in this program. It’s a rare and powerful teachable moment on the realities of exploration on the human frontier. It is I think a life lesson.Here it is –
Space holding company Voyager to acquire Nanoracks, which added an airlock to the space station CNBC 12/23/2020 Michael Sheetz
Voyager Space Holdings intends to take a majority stake in the parent company of Nanoracks, a space services and hardware specialist that has sent more than 1,000 missions to the International Space Station.
The stake in Nanoracks marks Voyager s fourth deal since its establishment in October 2019. With Voyager, we have a platform that allows us to grow into the entire in-space services infrastructure development, with a financial sophistication and synergy that we just frankly would not have on our own, Nanoracks CEO Jeff Manber told CNBC.