Spaceflight June 2005

Contents

International Space News
Question mark over Space Station logistics flights, New NASA boss intends rapid progress, Europe and US plan Jupiter moon mission, SSTL signs up for handful of launches, New space boss at QinetiQ, Europe heads back to Mars, Houston – we have a comic, Japan plans launch of prototype capsule, Russia and Ukraine work on new booster, Software fixes for Delta IVH, Satellites at risk from rising carbon dioxide levels, Shuttle launch date likely to slip into summer.

Satellite Digest

Society collects special award

Space Station Chronology
Neville Kidger 

Painting space
Ed Hengeveld

VEGA helps prepare CryoSat for launch
Clive Simpson

Farewell to Complex 36
Joel Powell

Daring in-orbit repair of Solar Max
Dr Neil Da Costa

Simply mechanical
Nándor Schuminszky

Correspondence
Voyage’ type mission to planets a non-starter, Disadvantages of on-orbit assembly, Science and religion, A question of risk, Zero gravity surgery – and how to avoid it.

Society news
Obituary – Stanley William Green