* Super Draco engine fire SpaceX's launch escape and landing motor being tested in Texas https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/214831794103664640/photo/1/large
* CS capsule tests Copenhagen Suborbitals is making progress with their capsule spacecraft, now officially named Betty Page. Separation test from the launch escape tower: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/diy-capsule-drop-test-pyro-separation-and-betty-page/ Drop tests into water: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/diy-capsule-drop-test-evaluations/ * Shenzhou 9 Launches With First Chinese Woman A Long March 2F rocket launched from Jiuquan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDJCr-5T1U * China docks with space station Shenzhou 9 crew enters the Tiangong-1 space station for the 1st time. We (humans) now have two space manned space stations in LEO! Hatch opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ItkfZSEKE * X-37-B Returns to Earth The Air Force's secret robotic space plane landed at Vandenburg after spending 15 months in orbit. Photos: http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/06/17/cool-photos-x-37b-on-the-runway-after-landing/ IR Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsHUwYLpdBI * Spacecraft to Scale Just a quick infographic http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Picture-1.png * NPP "Blue Marble" Polar View Compost whole disk view from the new(ish) NPP weather sat showing the North Pole http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/7394700302 * Some fantastic recent abstract photos of Earth from ISS Taken by Dutch astronaut André Kuipers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_andre/7366086518/ _______________________________________________ psas-team mailing list psas-team@lists.psas.pdx.edu http://lists.psas.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/psas-team This list's membership is automatically generated from the memberships of the psas-airframe, psas-avionics, and psas-general mail lists. Visit http://lists.psas.pdx.edu to individually subscribe/unsubscribe yourself from these lists.
