Space Flight

The Sights and Sounds of Endeavour’s Final Launch

Videographers David Gonzales and Mike Deep filmed Endeavour's final launch with two cameras from the Kennedy Space Center Press Site,…

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DARPA Wants Your Ideas for a 100-Year Starship

[/caption] The idea for a 100-year starship has been tossed around recently, and now DARPA the Defense Advanced Research Projects…

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Rare and Unpublished LIFE Photos of Alan Shepard’s Historic Flight

[/caption] If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen how I was oohing and aahing about a wonderful…

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Astronaut On Board ISS Gets Word of Mother’s Death

[/caption] ISS astronaut Paolo Nespoli from Italy received some sad news while in orbit on the International Space Station: his…

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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…

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Movie Premiere: First Orbit

50 years ago Yuri Gagarin became the world’s first human to go into space. What did he see? He described…

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‘Gagarin’ Launches to Space Station

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launching from the very same launch pad used by Yuri Gagarin when he became the first…

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What Did Gagarin See on His Historic Flight?

50 years ago, April 12th, Yuri Gagarin became the world’s first human to go into space. What did he see?…

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Unique Perspective: Shuttle Launch as Seen from Airplane, Balloon, and Freefall

I thought I had a great view of space shuttle Discovery's final launch, seeing it from the Kennedy Space Center…

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Incredible Video of Shuttle Approaching ISS, Taken from Earth

[/caption] Award winning photographer Theirry Legault sent us a note about some amazing new video he shot of the space…

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