This month, SpaceX completed successfully its first Dragon high altitude drop test with the purpose of validating the parachute deployment system and recovery operations before the first flight of an operational Dragon, later this year.On the August 12, nine miles off the coast of Morro Bay, California, an Erickson S... |
23 August 2010
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It appears that NASA has been the victim of a fraud that could have caused the loss of a spacecraft and of its crew. A 60-year-old man named Richard Harmon, working at Cornerstone Machining Inc., close to Houston, Texas, was involved in the development of a complicated part for a NASA space shuttle, called a passive ... |
14 November 2008
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The worst Russian submarine incident since the 2000 explosion of a torpedo killing 118 persons aboard took place this Saturday. Now, more details of the tragedy have been made public. It seems that the event that led to the death of 20 persons and injuring of another 21 was caused by a false alarm that triggered the ... |
11 November 2008
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The next space station crew which is ready to embark on the journey aboard the Russian Soyuz space is full of surprises, being not only one of the most nationally and ethnically diverse, but it also features some world premieres.The first would be the fact that NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson will be the first female c... |
24 July 2007
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