Spaceflight June 2010

Contents

International Space News
Obama seeks to explain vision for space, Final Shuttle mission slips, ISRO investigates failure of new third stage, Buy a ticket to support launch, Envisat volcano plume image, Success for Europe’s ice mission, Cosmonaut takes chair at UN Space Committee, Air Force spaceplane launches into blackout, Hubble’s anniversary portrait

Satellite Digest

Obama tweaks radical NASA goals
Ken Kremer

Russian science beauty unveiled
Ken Kremer

First pick your planet
Robert April

Discovery’s penultimate voyage
Ken Kremer and Gerard van de Haar

International Space Station Chronology
George Spiteri

Politics of the first socialist spacefarers
Nandor Schuminszky

Letters and emails
A cheaper deep space rocket engine design, BIS makeover and improvements, Lunar Module inverted image, UK Space Agency is long overdue, Space for the tourist, Microgravity and the plasma volume

Book reviews
Viking Village, The First Jet Pilot, Planetary Landers and Entry Probes, How NASA Lost its Way, Selling Peace, The Universe DVD (Series 1, 2, 3), The Shuttle Story, Into That Silent Sea, Servicing Hubble, Introduction to Astronomy & Cosmology

Society news
Spaceflight team stranded in Florida, Archaeology interest, New members, Website under development, Winners of 2010 Arthur awards, Competition winner