Space Station Trio Lands Safely in Kazakhstan
Three International Space Station crew members safely returned to Earth on Monday, wrapping up nearly six months in space during which NASA and its international partners…
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Time Lapse View of Earth From the International Space Station
Here is a stunning, mind-blowing time lapse video of the Earth at night, taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station: The video, taken by astronauts…
Read the article →Mars500 Mission “Returns” to Earth – Hatch Opens
The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500’s six brave volunteers stepped out of their ‘spacecraft’ today to be…
Read the article →Mars500 Crew “Returning” to Earth Soon
Since June last year, the six crewmembers of a simulated mission to Mars have been isolated in a special facility near Moscow. They will ‘arrive back…
Read the article →“America the Beautiful” on Chinese Space Video?
The Guardian newspaper in the UK reported that China’s state run television, CCTV, and China’s space agency released a video animation prior to the recently launched…
Read the article →Time Lapse Movie Shows What It Feels Like to Fly Over Planet Earth
As they soar above Planet Earth on the International Space Station, astronauts regularly point their cameras toward home, and their images are stored on a massive…
Read the article →Space Shuttle Final Landing Marks the End of an Era
Thus was history made: Space Shuttle Atlantis left the International Space Station on Tuesday and made its last return to Earth today. The Shuttle era is…
Read the article →NASA Space Shuttle Program Ends With Final Landing of Atlantis
Wrapping up 30 years of unmatched achievements and blazing a trail for the next era of U.S. human spaceflight, NASA’s storied Space shuttle Program came to…
Read the article →NASA Administrator Commemorates Final Space Shuttle Landing
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued this statement on July 21st about the final landing of the Space shuttle Program: “At today’s final landing of the space…
Read the article →Atlantis and ISS See Auroras From Space
The STS-135 crew of space shuttle Atlantis and the Expedition 28 crew of the International Space Station have been treated with great views of the Aurora…
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