Despite the global economic downturn, China is currently pushing more and more for a space station, a project meant to put the country among the world's top space powers, right next to the United States and Russia. The Asian nation is only the third in the world to manage to send astronauts in orbit using its ow... |
2 March 2009
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Scientists recorded fervently as the first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) re-entered orbit and burned in the atmosphere. Following a completely successful mission that started on March 9, the first European space craft of this class was plunged into a controlled dive over the South Pacific, where most of the debris... |
30 September 2008
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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
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What stops them you say? Well, it may be the fact that the Bigelow Aerospace agency currently has no vehicle to launch the Bigelow Sundancer module into space. Thus, they started studying the possibility of using Atlas 5 rockets for the initial launch of cargo and and even humans in the close future. If negotiations ... |
5 February 2008
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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
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As if NASA didn't have enough problems with an already tight schedule, now another incident brings up the problem of the spacesuits the astronauts wear while on spacewalk missions. During a test in a pressure-chamber on Earth, a trainee smelled traces of smoke inside his spacesuit. So far, the source of the smok... |
14 November 2007
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