U.S. Air Force Mini-Space Shuttle: Ready for Second Flight
US Air Force mini-space shuttle – ready for Atlas V liftoff. Credit: US Air Force X-37 B space plane. Credit: US Air Force The U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office is pressing forward on the launch of the second X-37B on March 4 with a back-up launch...House members question NASA’s budget priorities
Source: The Washington Times NASA chief Charles Bolden Jr. told a skeptical House panel Wednesday that President Obama’s budget provides enough funds to maintain the agency’s mission and stay on the cutting edge of innovation and space exploration. But several members...Russia’s Progress 41 reaches International Space Station, the Latest in a Parade of Global Supply Ships Headed for the Orbiting Science Laboratory
Russia’s 41st Progress supply capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station late Saturday, the latest in a series of unmanned global cargo vessels headed for the six person orbiting science laboratory. The Progress capsule linked to the...Hubble Unveils Most Distant Galaxy
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted what appears to be one of the universe’s earliest galaxies. The faint red blob is 13.2 billion light years away and 500 million times too faint to see with the human eye. Experts now calculate the age...Challenger Tragedy Remembered: A Range of Reactions 25 Years Later
Experts at Florida State University have provided insight regarding the upcoming 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster in which all astronauts on board, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, were lost 73 seconds after liftoff. The disaster on...Helms, Bobko Selected for U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
U. S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Susan Helms and U. S. Air Force Col. (Ret) Karol J. Bobko will be inducted in to the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation announced. Induction ceremonies are planned for May 7 at the Kennedy...Book Review: Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe
Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe by editors Carole Stott, Robert Dinwiddie, David Hughes and Giles Sparrow; Dorling Kindersley(DK) Publishing; New York, New York; $40.00 (hard cover); 2010. Space is big…but so is this large format book. This is a...Ascent: You Tube Tribute to the Space Shuttle Program
An extraordinary and must-see You Tube video is Ascent, a 45-minute tour-de-force that brings to sharp focus the intricacies of a shuttle liftoff. Created at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, the video was produced by space agency aerospace engineer,...Upcoming Shuttle Flight: A Healthy Dose of Medical Investigation
Here’s a medical mix: the space shuttle, immune systems in space, and elderly and young children here on Earth. Onboard space shuttle Discovery’s STS-133 mission, there are sixteen rodent hitchhikers, riding in their own self-contained modules. The mice aboard...Space Talk
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