Space Flight

President Obama to Attend Endeavour’s Last Launch on April 29

[/caption] President Barack Obama and the entire First Family apparently plan to attend the final launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour,…

14 years ago

Launch Date Set for Particle Detector Mission; Endeavour’s Final Flight,

[/caption] The launch date for the long-awaited Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) to the International Space Station has been set for…

14 years ago

Gallery: 10 Years of Canadarm2, Construction Crane in Space

[/caption] On April 19, 2001, space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-100 mission launched to the space station, and in the payload bay…

14 years ago

Yuri Gagarin From the Earth to Mars Tribute

[/caption] 50 Years ago, the dream of human spaceflight opened with the courageous blastoff of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin inside the…

14 years ago

NASA Announces Awardees of CCDev2

[/caption] NASA has announced the winners of the four second-round agreements under the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) program. These companies…

14 years ago

NASA Avoids Accountant’s Axe

[/caption] With the US's attention firmly focused on the budget with calls to cut spending in every possible non-essential programs,…

14 years ago

NASA Space Shuttle Owner’s Workshop Manual Book Review

[/caption] The shuttle era is ending and when things end people have the tendency to look back and reflect on…

14 years ago

Iridium Next Prepares to Ride the Falcon

[/caption] To date, Iridium NEXT is the largest commercial space launch contract with any single entity. All total, the contract…

14 years ago

At Shuttle Program’s Twilight, Tears and Cheers as Triumphs and Tragedies are Remembered

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL – With the shuttle program’s end less than three months away, NASA took time to honor the…

14 years ago

NASA Selects Museums in Florida, California, New York and the Smithsonian for retiring Space Shuttles

[/caption] NASA Administrator Charles Bolden today unveiled the winners in the bidding war to become home to one of NASA’s…

14 years ago