Tag: shuttle

There's a now a third private space entity that's been screened and granted permission to ferry cargo to and fro ...

After exactly 674 days in orbit, the Air Force's top secret spaceplane landed in California on Friday. There's very little anyone ...

Yesterday morning, the U.S. Air Force launched its X-37B robotic space plane into orbit via an Atlas 5 rocket from Florida's Cape ...

Both Boeing and SpaceX are set to split as much as $1 billion in federal awards destined to spur development ...

Last year NASA permanently retired the iconic shuttle program, since it became obsolete, too expensive, difficult to maintain and no ...

I know some of you are either nostalgic or plain tired of all the Atlantis posts we've been publishing lately, ...

Incredibly enough, using a a simple, standard issued astrophotography set-up, amateur astronomer Scott Ferguson was able to film in incredible detail ...

Despite unfriendly whether filled with low lying clouds and a last moment countdown glitch, which gave of all the 750,000 ...

Space shuttle Atlantis will embark this Friday on its final journey, symbolizing the end of NASA's illustrious space shuttle program. ...

NASA just confirmed the shuttle's last-ever mission will launch on July 8th. The space shuttle Atlantis will blast off headed for ...

After Discovery, another legendary orbited is heading towards retirement - Endeavour is only one mission away from a lifetime of ...

As I told you yesterday, the Discovery shuttle is preparing for a well deserved retirement, after 365 days spent in ...

When launched in 1984, Discovery was top notch; it was the best available around, and only the third operational orbiter; ...

NASA's space shuttle is set to take off on its last mission in 2010; the agency is really busy preparing ...