NASA and its international partners have appointed three International Space Station crew members to round out future expeditions to the orbiting laboratory. NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Japanese Exploration Aerospace Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko are scheduled to launch in June 2015. They will join three Expedition 44 crew members in orbit and will remain aboard as part of Expedition 45.
An investigation conducted by Roscsomos has found that sensors aboard the Proton rocket that went down just after launch earlier this month were installed upside down, causing them to send incorrect information to the vehicle's onboard computers.
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle Was One Of The World's First Fly-By-Wire Aircraft
President John F. Kennedy's 1961 challenge to put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth by decade's end electrified much of the country, but it floored most NASA engineers.
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