News Archive / Author: Derek Richardson

Derek Richardson has a degree in mass media, with an emphasis in contemporary journalism, from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. While at Washburn, he was the managing editor of the student run newspaper, the Washburn Review. He also has a blog about the International Space Station, called Orbital Velocity.

Articles By Derek Richardson

• Crew-4 arrives at International Space Station in Dragon ‘Freedom’

  April 28th, 2022

  Less than 16 hours after launching from Florida, the Crew-4 astronauts arrived at the International Space Station to begin a five-month stay aboard the outpost.

• All-private Axiom Space astronauts return to Earth

  April 25th, 2022

  Four private Axiom Space astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX Dragon capsule after spending two weeks aboard the International Space Station performing science and outreach activities.

• All-private Axiom Space astronauts dock with Space Station

  April 9th, 2022

  Four private Axiom Space astronauts docked to the International Space Station after launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket less than 24 hours earlier.

• NASA astronaut returns to Earth after 1 year at space station

  March 30th, 2022

  NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth with two Russian cosmonauts after spending a year aboard the International Space Station.

• President requests $7.5B for NASA’s Artemis program in 2023

  March 28th, 2022

  President Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget requests nearly an additional billion dollars over 2022’s enacted amount for NASA's Artemis lunar program.

• All-Russian Soyuz crew docks with International Space Station

  March 18th, 2022

  For the first time, a Soyuz spacecraft with only Russian cosmonaut International Space Station crew members launched and docked to the orbiting outpost.

• Spacewalkers prep Space Station for future solar arrays

  March 15th, 2022

  Two NASA astronauts completed a spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for a new set of solar arrays scheduled to arrive later this year.

• Arianespace, OneWeb suspend Soyuz launches indefinitely

  March 4th, 2022

  In response to Russia withdrawing its Soyuz support personnel from Europe’s South American space port, Arianespace has suspended all future launches atop the Russian rocket.

• Russia threatens to not launch OneWeb satellites

  March 2nd, 2022

  OneWeb has become the latest pawn of Roscosmos in the declining relations between Russia and the West after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

• Rocket Lab’s Electron flies from new pad in New Zealand

  February 28th, 2022

  In Rocket Lab’s inaugural launch from a new pad, the company’s Electron rocket orbited a small satellite for Synspective.

• NG-17 Cygnus reaches the International Space Station

  February 21st, 2022

  After two days traveling to the International Space Station, Northrop Grumman’s NG-17 Cygnus spacecraft arrived at the orbiting outpost.

• SpaceX loses dozens of Starlink satellites after solar storm

  February 9th, 2022

  Up to 40 Starlink satellites launched at the start of February are expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere after a geomagnetic storm prevented them from increasing their altitude.

• NASA marks anniversary of Apollo and space shuttle tragedies

  January 27th, 2022

  Each year in late January, NASA honors those who gave their lives in the quest to explore space, including those from Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia.

• CRS-24 cargo Dragon departs International Space Station

  January 23rd, 2022

  SpaceX’s CRS-24 cargo Dragon undocked from the International Space Station after more than a month attached to the orbiting laboratory.

• Axiom Space contracted to build an orbital film studio

  January 20th, 2022

  Plans are in the works add the first space-based “multipurpose entertainment and content studio” to the International Space Station.