“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 [...]
Continue reading →Japan’s H-2B rocket blasted off to space Thursday from launch pad 2 at the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan at 1:01:46 p.m. EDT. The rocket is carrying HTV cargo craft, an unmanned space station cargo, that contains around 7,400 pounds of equipment and supplies to the International Space Station. The cargo craft was released [...]
Continue reading →Here’s an update on the Discovery space shuttle. The astronauts and cosmonauts have already said their goodbyes in preparation for their return trip to Earth. They closed the hatches between the International Space Station and the shuttle at 11:41 pm EDT Monday. The astronauts aboard Discovery are taking home with them a portable cargo module [...]
Continue reading →If you have billions of money at your disposal, you can pretty much do anything you want like uhm, have a show in outerspace. Yup, circus billionaire Guy Laliberte who will visit space this month, announced that he will also be hosting a live event while he’s there. He says he is doing this to [...]
Continue reading →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 [...]
Continue reading →After three launch delays, the Discovery space shuttle finally blasted off to space late Friday for a 13-day installation and delivery mission. The space shuttle was originally scheduled for launch early Tuesday but bad weather and a fuel valve which failed to close caused a four-day delay. To catch up with the International Space Station, [...]
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