Space Flight
Camera That Saved Hubble is Replaced
[/caption] While mission specialists John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel successfully accomplished all their tasks for the first EVA of the…
Herschel and Planck Launch Succesfully
[/caption] The Herschel and Planck spacecraft successfully launched together Thursday from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The Ariane V…
Watch Herschel/Planck Launch Live
[/caption] The launch of the Herschel and Planck spacecraft is scheduled for 13:12 GMT (9:12 EDT) this morning (Thursday). You…
Debris Whizzes By Hubble, Shuttle; What Are We Going to do About Space Junk?
[/caption] NASA tracked a piece of orbital debris that came fairly close to space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space…
US Air Force to Test Scramjet Aircraft
[/caption] The US Air Force has been developing an aircraft that employs an air-breathing scramjet engine, and hopes to run…
NASA is Running Out of Plutonium
[/caption]Decommissioning nuclear weapons is a good thing. But when our boldest space missions depend on surplus nuclear isotopes derived from…
Did a Russian Home Get Hit by Progress Space Debris?
[/caption]The Russian supply ship for the International Space Station successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:37 pm EDT…
Alan Shepard, Freedom 7: May 5, 1961
48 years ago today, the US launched their first human to space. Alan Shepard flew on Mercury 3, a suborbital…
Hubble Servicing Mission Meets the Big Screen; Watch With Friends
[/caption] The crew of the upcoming Hubble servicing mission have not only been busy training for all contingencies of spaceflight…
Russia Considering Rocket-Powered Precision Landing for Next Generation Spacecraft
[/caption] Engineers for Russia's next-generation manned space vehicle are considering a rocket-powered landing system which would provide precision landing on…