Space Flight
SpaceX Seeking Tweets From The Final Frontier
[/caption] Space Exploration Technologies -- or SpaceX as they are more commonly known -- has gotten pretty good at launching…
Dawn Closing in on Asteroid Vesta as Views Exceed Hubble
[/caption] A new world in our Solar System is about to be unveiled for the first time – the mysterious…
NASA Sets July 8 for Mandatory Space Shuttle Grand Finale
[/caption] NASA Shuttle managers met today (28 June) and officially set July 8 as the launch date for the Grand…
Space Junk Forces ISS Crew to Takes Shelter in Soyuz
[/caption] The six crewmembers on board the International Space Station were told to take shelter in the two Russian Soyuz…
Burt Rutan’s Race To Space: A Primer For Things To Come
[/caption] Voyager, Proteus and SpaceShipOne have become aerospace legends. As has the man who established them all – Burt Rutan.…
End of the Shuttle Era: Q & A With Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach
[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. – He has been with the shuttle program for the past three decades and has witnessed…
Final Shuttle Voyagers Conduct Countdown Practice at Florida Launch Pad
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - The “Final Four” shuttle astronauts who will ever voyage to Earth orbit aboard a NASA…
Dramatic New NASA Animation Depicts Next Mars Rover in Action
[/caption] NASA’s next Mars rover, the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory, will soon embark on a quantum leap in humankind’s scientific…
Packing a Mars Rover for the Trip to Florida
Check out this way cool time-lapse movie of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as its being packed up for her trip…
Is This a Scene from Star Wars or a Real Image from the ISS?
[/caption] What an amazing image! The ATV-2 Johannes Kepler looks like an X-Wing fighter from Star Wars as it departed…