SPACE LAUNCH – “When you look at the Earth it looks really unique, isolated, finite” said Jean-François Clervoy remembering his time in space ahead of the first launch of a UK astronaut in over 20 years. ESA astronaut Clervoy will be in Belfast on Tuesday at W5 as part of events marking the Soyuz launch to ISS.
…and out of control… The BBC reports on the Russian unmanned cargo ship delivering supplies to the International Space Station that mission control has lost contact with and is now in a uncontrolled spin. Or, as RTÉ says, it’s ‘plunging back to Earth’. Here’s the view from a camera on-board the spacecraft. From the BBC report The Russian news agency Tass reports that Progress M-27M is now orbiting in an uncontrolled spin. Scientists may try again to control it, but it …
