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NASA Schedules Last 10 Missions for Space Shuttle

The date of retirement for NASA's famous space orbiter draws ever closer by the day; thus, the US space agency has decided to publish the dates of launch for the last eight space shuttle missions expected to take place in 2009 and 2010. The other two flights that will be carried out by the space shuttle this yea...

9 July 2008
09:23 GMT

First Ares Engine Tests Completed

The space launchers expected to take astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station by 2015 and to carry a manned mission to the Moon and Mars by 2020, as part of NASA's Constellation Program, have completed on Thursday their first series of tests in the early development program. The Ares I rocket alon...

12 May 2008
02:52 GMT

NASA Considers Landing a Manned Mission on Near Asteroid

2000SG344 is a Near Earth Object only 40 meters in diameter which passes periodically through the vicinity of our planet at speeds as high as 44,8 kilometers per hour. Astronomers estimate that in the next six decades or so, the asteroid will approach Earth considerably but it will not intersect the orbit of the plan...

8 May 2008
10:21 GMT

NASA Says to Have Solution for Ares I Vibrations

The US space shuttles are supposed to retire in 2010 in order to give way to the Ares I rocket. However, it hasn't been a secret for awhile that NASA's new rocket design is fatally flawed and may shake itself to pieces during liftoff. NASA engineers believe they have found a solution to their problem, in th...

7 April 2008
07:08 GMT

NASA's Constellation Program isn't Going Anywhere Soon

Putting a man on the Moon in 1969 was easy. Putting a man on the Moon today is not. I, for one, don't understand the logic of it. Do we really have to mention Mars too? According to the congressional report on NASA's replacement of the space shuttle, the Constellation Program is in serious danger of failing...

4 April 2008
06:58 GMT




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