The oldest and most flown orbiter in the American space fleet landed gracefully at a NASA spaceport yesterday, concluding nearly 27 years of continued operations. The final voyage of Discovery leaves astronauts and other personnel with a bittersweet feeling.The shuttle landed for one last time at the Kennedy Space Ce... |
10 March 2011
02:36 GMT |
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Tomorrow, Wednesday, will mark a historic moment in the history of the space shuttle program, namely the retirement of the first of three orbiters NASA operated for nearly three decades. Discovery is due to make its final landing on March 9. The spacecraft is now in low-Earth orbit (LEO), and the six-astronaut crew o... |
8 March 2011
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The space shuttle Discovery is about to say farewell to the International Space Station and outer space for ever. The spacecraft will separate from the orbital facility today, March 7, and head for a March 9 landing at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida. The 12 astronauts onboard the space lab got together on... |
7 March 2011
03:04 GMT |
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Two astronauts from the crew of the space shuttle Discovery have gone outside the International Space Station (ISS) a couple of hours ago. They are conducting the second extravehicular activity (EVA) of the STS-133 mission to the orbital facility. According to the crew aboard the ISS, the spacewalk debuted with a mal... |
2 March 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and the space shuttle Discovery are getting ready to perform the first extravehicular activity (EVA) of the STS-133 mission. Two astronauts will go outside the station to perform vital repairs and upgrades. The spacewalkers, both of them ascended to orbit on Dis... |
28 February 2011
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A member of the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) may not be able to accompany his colleagues in their journey to low-Earth orbit. NASA astronaut Tim Kopra had a bicycle accident over the weekend, and appears to have broken his hip.Up until this point, the American space agency has not released... |
19 January 2011
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Engineering teams at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) announce that they finished repair work on the space shuttle Discovery, and with time to space. Experts still have 10 days to conduct final checks, and determine whether to allow the orbiter to fly or not.The STS-133 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) ... |
23 November 2010
06:02 GMT |
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Officials at NASA say that the space shuttle Discovery will not take off before Thursday, November 4, after engineering teams discovered a new glitch in one of the orbiter's computers. Mission controllers therefore decided to postpone the launch by 24 hours, so that engineering teams would have sufficient time t... |
3 November 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Officials at NASA say that they still don't know for sure what will happen to space shuttle Discovery after it returns from its last planned flight, the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).Discovery is now ready to fly to the orbital facility, and it is scheduled to launch on Wednesday. It w... |
1 November 2010
09:48 GMT |
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Engineering teams at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, could now finish up with the repairs of space shuttle Discovery in due time, and so take off for the orbiter's final flight have been delayed one extra day, to November 3. The shuttle is now scheduled to take off on Wednesday, at 3:52 pm EDT, or 19... |
1 November 2010
03:50 GMT |
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After dealing with a small glitch that occurred aboard the space shuttle Discovery, NASA mission controllers say that the launch date for the STS-133 mission has finally been established. Discovery will be able to keep its original schedule, and will therefore take-off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center ... |
26 October 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Officials at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, announce that the space shuttle Discovery will make its finally rollout journey to the seaside Launch Pad 39A. After about three decades of continuous service, the orbiter fleet is being retired, and this is to be Discovery's last voyage to... |
20 September 2010
09:50 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the robotic astronauts they have been developing in cooperation with experts at General Motors is currently undergoing extensive testing. The machine is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) this September, aboard the space shuttle Discovery, du... |
15 April 2010
08:45 GMT |
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