“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 [...]
The space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to land in Florida Thursday evening. The weather, however, might prevent them from doing so. According to Mission Control, “the weather will pose a challenge” for the shuttle’s landing. Weather forecast also called a possibility of thunderstorms with the poor weather condition expected to get worse on Friday until [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
Well, not really. But a new discovery supports NASA’s theory that some of life’s ingredients were formed in space and then deposited here in our planet. NASA said today that a comet scoured by the Stardust spacecraft carried an amino acid. This acid – glycine to be exact – is essential building block for organic [...]
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 [...]
Endeavor will launch at 6:03 pm on Wednesday if the weather forecast holds. Two launch attempts of the Endeavor last week failed because of bad weather in the launch area. Weather forecasts for this launch however, shows a 60% chance for good conditions. Last week’s two launch schedules were Sunday (previously Saturday but was moved) [...]
