Space Station
Double Spaceship Sighting Alert – and last chance to see Discovery in orbit
[/caption] UPDATE: We've already got a sighting! The image above was taken this evening in the UK by science writer…
Keep Your Cool! New Experiment Will Help Understand Heat Transfer in Space
[/caption] From a NASA news release: It may seem illogical, but boiling is a very efficient way to cool engineering…
STS-133 Launches on Historic Final Mission for Shuttle Discovery
[/caption] Overcoming a down-to the-last second problem, space shuttle Discovery made history today, launching on its final mission to orbit.…
NASA Sets STS-133 Launch for February 24
[/caption] Following a Flight Readiness Review today, NASA and Space Shuttle Program managers announced that space shuttle Discovery is ready…
NASA Weighs Risks of Unique Photo-Op at Space Station
[/caption] If all goes well and space shuttle Discovery arrives at the International Space Station the end of February, there…
ATV Successfully Launches to Space Station
Here's a chance to practice your French countdown skills: watch today's successful launch of the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer…
Soyuz and 3 ISS Crewmembers Return Home
The Expedition 25 crew landed safely in Kazakhstan at 11:46 p.m. EST Thursday (Friday 10:46 a.m. Kazakhstan time). The trio…
ISS Particle Detector Ready to Unveil Wonders of the Universe
[/caption] The Principal Investigator (P.I.) for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS-02) experiment, Professor Samuel Ting, says that the experiment is…
Flying to the Moon — From the Space Station?
[/caption] Last month the International Space Station partner agencies met to discuss the continuation of space station operations into the…
Two Russian Companies Plan to Build First Commercial Space Station
[/caption] Will there soon be another human destination in low Earth orbit, or is this a redundant pipe dream? Two…