Discovery Awaits Better Weather on Friday
Stormy weather across Florida on Thursday prompted NASA to postpone efforts to launch the shuttle Discovery on her 39th and final flight, an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. The space agency will try again on Friday. The forecast for the planned...NASA Clears Discovery for a Thursday Launch Attempt
Discovery will be prepared for a Thursday launch attempt, NASA’s Mission Management Team decided following a lengthy review on Wednesday of an intermittent voltage irregularity in the circuitry of a backup main engine controller. However, the passage of a cold...Maybe Thursday for Discovery’s Launching
Shuttle Discovery’s final mission has been postponed until no earlier than Thursday to permit additional trouble shooting of a rocket engine computer that displayed some unexplained power readings during routine countdown testing on Tuesday. A launching of...Coalition launches Think Outside the Circle online campaign
The Coalition for Space Exploration today launched its Think Outside the Circle campaign with the release of an online public service announcement featuring the space shuttle Discovery on its final “rollout.” The 60-second online video depicts Discovery in unexpected...Discovery Lift Off Re-Set for Wednesday
NASA announced a second 24 hour delay in plans to launch the shuttle Discovery on Saturday, aiming for Wednesday instead of Election Day. Wednesday’s lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is targeted for 3:52 p.m., EDT. The weather outlook includes a...Discovery Aims for Election Day Lift Off, a Day Late to Permit Leak Repairs
NASA will aim for an Election Day lift of the shuttle Discovery on the orbiter’s final flight, a one day delay called for on Friday to repair helium and nitrogen leaks in the spacecraft’s right Orbital Maneuvering System pod. A Tuesday lift off would occur...Space Station to Achieve 10 Years of Continuous Human Presence on Nov. 2
Tuesday will mark an historic milestone, as the United States, Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and Canada celebrate the 10th anniversary of a continuous human presence aboard the NASA-led International Space Station. Does a decade with at least two humans and...Discovery Astronauts Receive “Go” for Nov. 1 Lift Off
NASA on Monday gave the shuttle Discovery and a crew of six astronauts the green light for a Nov. 1 launching of the 26-year-old orbiter’s final flight, an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle’s crew has trained to deliver a new...If You Had a Robot, What Would You Do With It?
Well Rob Ambrose, who leads NASA’s Robonaut 2 project, has been asking people that question for 20 years. And with good reason, Robonaut 2, a joint project between NASA and General Motors, to develop a humanoid suitable for space travel, is headed for the...Space Talk
A new eye on the cosmos is almost ready to soar!
#NASA’s #NancyGraceRoman Space Telescope is now set to launch on 30 August 2026 - eight months ahead of schedule.
With its powerful wide-field infrared vision, #Roman will reveal vast, uncharted regions of the #universe,
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🇲🇦🇧🇷| Brazilian company Saipher presented its HORUS SDA/SSA/STM software during a meeting with FAR 4th Bureau officials. The system provides Space Domain Awareness (SDA), Space Situational Awareness (SSA), and Space Traffic Monitoring (STM) capabilities.
@Eric3Gribble Not how Congress works. SLS gets money allocated to it by Congress. SLS receiving money doesn’t take money from other parts of NASA.
And it’s a good thing that we didn’t fall for this trap too, because then no part of Artemis would be working
Everybody say "Hi, LESTR" 👋
This machine at our center is helping NASA study how materials behave in super-cold environments.
Putting electronics and other flight hardware to the test at extremely low temperatures will be critical as we look to build a Moon Base near the lunar
