Four Astronauts Honored for Contributions to Human Space Flight
U.S. astronauts, from Florida to Texas, are receiving honors this week for their contributions to human space exploration. On Saturday (May 5), Franklin Chang Diaz, Kevin Chilton and Charles Precourt will be inducted into the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in...Orbiter Discovery receives “Bumper to Bumper” Washington Welcome
NASA’s shuttle orbiter Discovery reached her new home port on Tuesday, the nation’s capital, following a four hour ferry flight atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft that featured a fly over of the Washington D. C. area and a post-departure fly over...Europe’s Heaviest Payload Readied for Liftoff (Update)
The largest and heaviest payload ever launched by Europe is slated for departure. A routine inspection, however, has concluded that additional measures are required to ensure the maximum readiness of the third Automated Transfer Vehicle for launch. It has therefore...Space Station Detector Sifts the Cosmic Fabric at an Unexpected Clip
Perched on the outside of the sprawling International Space Station, the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is sifting through cosmic ray particles at twice the rate eager physicists estimated when the “big science” experiment was launched last...Humans in Space: A Look Back at 2011, A Look Ahead at 2012
A year of milestones in human spaceflight, some tinged with nostalgia, is drawing to a close. The New Year opens with the U. S.and its global partners settled in Earth orbit, and a NASA strategy for the future human exploration of deep space starting to gel. In...U. S., Russian Astronauts Begin Soyuz Journey to the International Space Station
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three U.S.and Russian astronauts thundered away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan late Sunday and raced toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly...Boeing to Assemble Commercial Spacecraft in Former Shuttle Processing Facilities
The Boeing Co. will consolidate its commercial crew space transportation operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center under an agreement announced on Monday that will open more than 200,000 square feet of former space shuttle processing facilities to the...Sunday Launch Signals Soyuz Recovery, Eases Space Station De-staffing Concerns
A Soyuz rocket soared into Earth orbit with the Progress 45 cargo capsule early Sunday, marking the first mission of the venerable Russian launcher to the International Space Station since the late August crash of a similar supply craft. The Aug. 24 loss led to...Robonaut 2 Achieves First Motion
Robonaut2, a legless robot developed by NASA and automaker General Motors and launched to the International Space Station in February, moved for the first time this week by reaching out in response to ground commands. “We have his arms stretched...Space Talk
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