This material can heat to 2200 F, but it’s safe to hold in your bare hands
Designing an orbiter that is able to endure the brutal -250 F in the outer stretches of space, as well ...
Tag: Space Shuttle
Taming the sound from a shuttle using water
What purpose would a water tank have in the proximity of a space shuttle launch? Well, believe it or not, ...
Space Shuttle Endeavor’s tanks to be reused on the ISS
The space shuttle Endeavor is currently retired, being displayed for everyone to see at the California Science Center. But that ...
Historic ISS rendzvous with manned spacecraft set for today [UPDATE]
Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin (left), Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov (center) and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA pose for pictures ...
Highly secretive unmanned Air Force spacecraft launches into orbit
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 ...
NASA Today and its Uncertain Future
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has had a long and storied history in the course of American scientific exploration. ...
The new Liberty rocket aims to bring manned space launches back on US soil by 2015
Since the space shuttle program was cancelled last year, NASA has been looking for various alternatives to sending manned crews ...
The shuttle is back in space, it’s made out of LEGO though [VIDEO]
A lot of people were left disheartened when the iconic space shuttle program was canceled last year. Though it's now ...
NASA Buys Flights on Virgin Galactic’s Private Spaceship
NASA's troubles are other companies good luck charm: Virgin has just struck a deal with NASA worth up to $4.5 ...
British plan to revive unique UK satellite
A group of scientists and engineers from the United Kingdom are working on an ambitious program to revive their only ...
NASA’s last ever shuttle mission in photos
Despite unfriendly whether filled with low lying clouds and a last moment countdown glitch, which gave of all the 750,000 ...
NASA fuels Endeavour for one last round
As I was telling you a few days ago, after Discovery, Endeavour is also preparing for its last trip, led ...
Endeavour’s last flight will also be Mark Kelly’s last
Endeavour will pretty soon begin its retirement, just like fellow space orbiter Discovery did just a while ago. However, Endeavour's ...
NASA to announce permanent homes for retired shuttles
Exactly 30 years ago, the first orbital space shuttle launch took place, marking the start of a slew of successful ...
NASA to announce home of retiring space ships
Tuesday will mark the 50th year since human space flight, since the day Yuri Gagarin left Russia and became the ...
Endeavour launch delayed due to Russian schedule
Endeavour was set to take of in a really short time, and everybody was ready for this, but in an ...
Crew practices for Endeavour last mission
After Discovery, another legendary orbited is heading towards retirement - Endeavour is only one mission away from a lifetime of ...
Cocaine found at Kennedy Space Center… again
NASA's Inspector General's Office says an investigation is under way after a white powdery substance found at the Kennedy Space ...
Boeing enters the space tourism market
Commercial space flight is starting to promise to become a very lucrative market since an ever growing interested is harnessed ...
