“Houston, Discovery, wheels stopped.” Marine Col. Frederick W. Sturckow, commander of the Discovery shuttle, radioed as they landed on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base at 8:53 p.m E.D.T. The shuttle was set to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida but bad weather that promised to continue on Saturday, stopped them from [...]
Yup, a team of six mice are living in style at the International Space station as part of an Italian study investigating the effects of bone loss in space. Julie Robinson, NASA’s space station program scientist says this is the first time that rodents will be actually staying at the space station and for a [...]
There’s still a very good chance that Discovery will be launched tomorrow at 12:22 am following five launch pad tests Wednesday. The fuel valve, which signaled a failure to close while the external fuel tank was being filled for launch late Tuesday, led to a 48-hour postponement to give engineers time to diagnose the problem. [...]
Yup, the Discovery shuttle is ready to launch into space following the successful maintenance mission of Endeavour. Discovery’s launch countdown begun late Friday night and is scheduled to blast off early Tuesday morning. Forecasters predicted that conditions suitable for the launch on Tuesday will be 70 percent – a very good chance, I might add. [...]
After five launch attempts, NASA’s Endeavor finally blasted off into space (literally J) and is now coming home. The first attempt to touch down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is scheduled today at 1547 BST (1047 EDT) with the weather forecasted to be favorable for landing in Florida. The Endeavor crew of seven astronauts took [...]
