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Despite having not one, but two landing windows yesterday, the space shuttle Discovery was unable to take advantage of any of them, as stormy clouds and thunderstorms loomed over the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. According to NASA officials, the seven-member crew aboard the spacecraft have another... |
11 September 2009
01:16 GMT |
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Paleontologists have recently managed to uncover a first-of-its-kind prehistoric "runway" for pterosaurs, the ancient, bird-like animals. The tracks, found at a location dubbed Pterosaur Beach, in southwestern France, are the first evidence to show how these animals landed, which is something that is apparently very ... |
19 August 2009
06:46 GMT |
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The space shuttle Endeavor successfully touched down at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 0948 EDT (1448 GMT) today, in a picture-perfect procedure that could be watched online at NASA TV. Having successfully completed its 16-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the shuttle crew is now scheduled to e... |
31 July 2009
11:05 GMT |
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The seven-astronaut crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis was told by Mission Control that it would have to spend a little more time in space, on account of the fact that the weather around the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, didn't look great. STS-125 Entry Flight Director Norm Knight announced that there wa... |
22 May 2009
02:26 GMT |
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Eric Knight, the co-founder of rocket company UP Aerospace and president of the Connecticut-based firm Remarkable Technologies, Inc., proposed a novel and interesting approach for reaching the Red Planet. His plan may very well seem like part of a Hollywood action script, and it involves coupling ships in orbit, sust... |
7 January 2009
07:30 GMT |
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Finally, after several delays, the spaceship Endeavour and its crew touched down safely on a temporary runway in California, instead of the original designated place, which was regularly used – the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The detour was resorted to due to the poor weather conditions in Florida, where s... |
1 December 2008
14:01 GMT |
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As the next NASA mission is scheduled for launch next year, scientists are struggling to choose the best option for a landing site on Mars. So far, they have managed to rule out one more of the suggested sites, thus limiting the options down to just four. The Mars Scientific Laboratory (MSL) rover is supposed to prov... |
22 November 2008
13:51 GMT |
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Communications with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, relaying data from the Phoenix Mars Lander to Earth, were restored after a slight glitch that delayed the mission of the lander for one day. Thus, on Wednesday mission controllers gave Phoenix the 'go ahead' to unfold the 2.4 meter long robotic arm it wil... |
29 May 2008
03:01 GMT |
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The United States, Russia, India, Japan and China have all announced plans to send astronauts back to the Moon around 2020. India's space agency, although lacking the level of funding found in the US and Japan, has an ambitious plan for the next decade.In a statement made this spring by India's then presid... |
30 July 2007
08:23 GMT |
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Landing at high enough speeds on sandy planets could sink the landing module deep in the sand layer, just like a rock diving into a pool. This is the conclusion of a new study that considered the problem of sand on other planets and how that could affect future manned missions to the Moon and Mars.Both Mars and the M... |
4 July 2007
10:59 GMT |
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China presented on Saturday, at a China-United Kingdom space technology seminar at the Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Institute, the prototype of a lunar rover that will hopefully be chosen for their first landing on the moon, to take place in 2012 . The country's lunar ambitions are set out in the "Chan... |
2 April 2007
05:51 GMT |
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