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As if it was not enough, NASA engineers have found a third small crack in the aluminum skin of the external fuel tank of the space shuttle Discovery, while they were carrying final repairs before the spacecraft's last spaceflight.Kennedy Space Center engineers were already analyzing the two 23 centimeters (9 inc... |
13 November 2010
04:05 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has big plans for 2009, its boss Jean-Jacques Dordain announced at a briefing in Paris on Wednesday. Among the most impressive plans that Dordain presented at the conference there's the launch of the Herschel and Planck telescopes, the maiden flight of the Vega carrier system, and... |
15 January 2009
10:31 GMT |
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NASA could soon start official negotiations with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to buy H-2 Transfer Vehicles in order to fulfill its obligations of delivering water, food and materials for scientific experiments to the International Space Station after the space shuttle will be retired in the second half of 2... |
21 July 2008
03:45 GMT |
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According to NASA administrator Michael Griffin, the next manned mission to set foot on the Moon by the end of the next century might not be coordinated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, but by China. Dr. Griffin further points out that if China wants to put a man on the Moon before the American s... |
15 July 2008
09:53 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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A 400 MB hard-disk drive manufactured by Seagate has been recovered from the wreckage left by the Columbia space shuttle. The ship has been completely destroyed by an explosion during reentry on February 1, 2003. There was nothing left of the ship and all the seven crew members had been killed by the blast. However, ... |
6 May 2008
05:24 GMT |
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Yesterday morning, the ATV Jules Verne executed its scheduled burning maneuver in order to elevate the altitude of the International Space Station. At 06:22 CEST, the ATV Control Center in Toulouse initiated a 740 second burn sequence of Jules Verne's two main engines, able to produce a thrust of 2.65 m/s, thus ... |
26 April 2008
03:36 GMT |
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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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This time Atlantis had no more problems with the external fuel tank fill up and cleared the launch pad right as scheduled, at 2:45 p.m. ET, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The space shuttle is carrying the European space module Columbus to the International Space Station, where it will remain for the next s... |
8 February 2008
03:54 GMT |
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Engineers evaluating the space shuttle's Atlantis readiness said yesterday that it will most likely launch tomorrow, in order to deliver the European space module Columbus to the International Space Station. The launch is scheduled to take place from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 2:45 ET. However, trou... |
6 February 2008
03:30 GMT |
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Bad luck just seems to stay on NASA's tail. It now looks like the scheduled retirement of its space shuttle will leave the international community with a rather big dilemma. With the space shuttles gone, there would be no reusable vehicle capable of transporting astronauts to the International Space Station, sin... |
4 February 2008
04:55 GMT |
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More than half of a century has passed since the first U.S. artificial satellite was lifted into space, inaugurating a long series of space launches. However, while most of the technology used to build the launch vehicles progressed at an extremely high rate, the design of the trusty rocket engine remained mostly unc... |
31 January 2008
11:05 GMT |
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Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly known as SpaceX, represents a space-transportation startup company founded in 2002, which has the goal to improve the cost and reliability of space travel. The Falcon 9 represents a stage of development that uses a multi-engine rocket in order to create a heavy-lif... |
31 January 2008
02:26 GMT |
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Twenty two years ago, one of the most tragical aeronautical accidents in the history of mankind took place. After only 73 seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger suffered a catastrophic malfunction, leading to the disintegration of the vehicle and the death of its crew of seven. Challenger was originally sc... |
28 January 2008
05:01 GMT |
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If you are wondering about how the next generation of space shuttles or sub-orbital planes would be like, then you should probably take a look at this paper beauty. Although it doesn't seem quite ready for orbital flying, this paper model could probably be launched from the International Space Station, fly all t... |
22 January 2008
04:33 GMT |
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The already busy schedule of building the International Space Station is about to get busier soon, due to British scientists and engineers proposal to launch two separate habitable modules by the year 2011. However, the ISS partnership between NASA, ESA and a few other countries has not approved the project so far, n... |
18 January 2008
05:24 GMT |
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The month of April will find the first Korean astronaut ever in space on board the International Space Station. During a recent interview, Ko San stated that he would take soil from both South and North Korea into space and mix it in a gesture of unity towards the divided Korean peninsula. The 31-year-old Korean astr... |
16 January 2008
09:31 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered why airplanes can't be used for spaceflight? Escaping the Earth's gravity is somehow tricky even with the current technology and keeps most of us stranded on the surface. Even NASA has sometimes problems getting its shuttle into space.The first attempt to put a man into space was not ... |
26 November 2007
06:45 GMT |
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