Space Flight

Commander Mark Kelly and STS-134 Crew Arrive at Kennedy for Endeavour’s Final Flight

[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - The six man crew for Shuttle Endeavour’s final flight to space arrived today (April 26)…

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Lockheed Accelerates Orion to Achieve 2013 launch and potential 2016 Manned Lunar Flyby

[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Despite utilizing just half the work force originally planned and cutting back further on the…

14 years ago

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