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Saturday, 30 December 2006 01:28
Prospective NASA manned asteroid mission to use Project Constellation and Orion spacecraft
With recent speculation that NASA is planning a manned mission to an asteroid to bring back samples of space rock, it would be informative to…
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NASA is failing to sell the final frontier to America's youth, with Generation Y asking; why bother going to Mars?
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Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:40
Exoplanet Search Begins with French Launch of Corot Telescope Satellite
On December 27, 2006, a French-led multinational team (consisting of the European Space Agency, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, and Spain) launched the first ever spacecraft…
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The Space Elevator—an elevator that would go up and down between the Earth’s surface and a point in space above the Earth—has been a topic…
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Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:30
Atlantis/STS-117 Being Readied for Mid-March 2007 Mission to Space Station
The next NASA Space Shuttle mission is expected to lift off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A on March 16, 2007. Aboard Space Shuttle…
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The Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts have landed safety at Florida's Kennedy Space Centre after NASA skipped two landing opportunities due to bad…
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The Space Shuttle Discovery has begun its descent, performing the deorbit burn to bring it into land at Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 5.32pm.
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The Space Shuttle Discovery has scrubbed its first landing attempt due to bad weather at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
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Flight controllers at the NASA Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, have announced that mysterious red “blips” have been recently observed and NASA and contractor personnel at…
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NASA engineers have cleared Space Shuttle Discovery for re-entry, with three landing sites to be prepared as the shuttle runs on emergency fuel.
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