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To be more specific; it was liquid oxygen from the upper tank in the second stage. You can tell because there is no pipeline intersecting the tank and liquid oxygen has a slight blue tint.

The launch has been scrubbed again to 09:47 GMT on Saturday the 10th.

Speaking of SpaceX, somebody made a really cool animation of tomorrow's CRS-5 launch and flight profile. The second stage burning during Dragon's separation bothered me a bit though.

Proton launches will continue until at least 2025, according to the same source which I linked in my previous post.

The Angara A5 can lift 24.5 tons to a 200km orbit according to this page.

Scrubbed due to bad weather at the launch site. Today hasn't been the best for spaceflight launches...

Their Kickstarter campaign is now just under seventy percent funded with fifteen days to go to secure the rest. The whole concept seems to be a big risk take considering the cost of sending a lander to the Moon and Kickstarter's hazy rules on ensuring backers get their rewards for pledging...

I think you're referring to this document.

The spacecraft was originally due to launch today, but according to the ESA's website and the Spaceflight Now Launch Schedule, it has been postponed to February 4th, 2015.

A descent image from ROLIS: ---------- Post added at 18:09 ---------- Previous post was at 17:42 ---------- And an image just seconds before landing:

The spacecraft is scheduled to detach from station at 13:56 PM UTC today. Following unberthing and release from the station's robotic arm, Dragon will begin its journey through Earth's atmosphere, conducting three departure burns to move away from the station followed by a deorbit burn at 18:43...

A live stream has started on NASA TV for the EVA. Task list:

This animation made by the ESA might help.

I think he was referring to the Mars One project instead of Virgin Galactic. Edit: The post below proves this statement wrong.

They showed the space race with Gagarin early in the opening ceremony and Valentina Tereshkova was one of the Olympic flag-bearers.

The constant KSP jokes are getting quite annoying. KSP is about space but space isn't about KSP. All of the videos relating to space on YouTube don't need the endless jokes. It's just kind of embarrassing now.

From the Wikipedia page:

Anyone else going to try and catch the ATV's visible path? 01:46 and 01:49 CEST on the night of the 5th/6th of June. http://blogs.esa.int/atv/2013/06/03/finding-atv-in-the-sky-ground-track-sky-chart/

The KEO is a time capsule that is scheduled to launch in 2014, and will re-enter the atmosphere of Earth in fifty thousand years. You can add a message on their website that will be encoded on a glass-made radiation-resistant digital videodisk. Here is some information about the time capsule...

My rule of thumb: if it's an orange-coloured wilderness, welcome to outback Australia.