Final Mission for the Space Shuttle
Space shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson and his three crewmates are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at…
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One Year Into the Mars500 Experiment
The six men in the Mars500 facility near Moscow have been in isolation now 365 days. The European crewmembers have been writing in their latest letters…
Read the article →Space Shuttle Endeavour Touches Down for the Final Time
Space shuttle Endeavour and its six-astronaut crew sailed home for the final time, ending a 16-day journey of more than 6.5 million miles with a landing…
Read the article →NASA Puts STS-134 Space Shuttle Mission Audio and Video Online
NASA has broadcast-quality audio and video clips from the ongoing STS-134 space shuttle and other missions available online through the Internet Archive website. The agency’s Johnson…
Read the article →Last Shuttle With ESA Astronaut Lifts Off to Space Station to Hunt for Dark Matter
Endeavour on the launch pad Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off today on her last mission to the International Space Station. Following launch of the STS-134 mission…
Read the article →First Orbit – Celebrate the First 50 Years of Human Spaceflight
This week marks 50 years since Yuri Gagarin climbed into his space ship and was launched into space. It took him just 108 minutes to orbit…
Read the article →NASA Orion Spacecraft
NASA’s Orion Spacecraft NASA has established a requirements baseline for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, bringing America’s next human spacecraft a step closer to construction. The…
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