May 11, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA
The countdown for the launching of the shuttle Atlantis on the ship’s last scheduled mission, a 12-day voyage to the International Space Station, will get under way Tuesday afternoon with a favorable weather outlook. Lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space...
May 10, 2010 | Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Space Race, Space Research
Starting next month, a crew of six that involves two Europeans, three Russians and one Chinese will participate in the first full-duration simulated mission to Mars. The Mars 500 experiment mimics a mission to Mars in a mockup that includes an interplanetary...
May 9, 2010 | Constellation Program, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Uncategorized
Shuttle Atlantis is nearing a lift off for the 32nd and likely the last time on Friday, May 14, a strong indication that NASA’s shuttle program is nearing the retirement envisioned by the nation’s top policy makers in the aftermath of the 2003 shuttle...
May 5, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Uncategorized
Shuttle Atlantis will under go preparations for its final scheduled mission, a 12-day voyage to the International Space Station for the delivery of a Russian made-docking and laboratory module as well as spacewalking upgrades to communications and solar power systems....
May 5, 2010 | Blog, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA
Source: Florida Today NASA is in the midst of a Flight Readiness Review that is widely expected to result in the selection of May 14 as the firmed up launch date for shuttle Atlantis and six astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station. The last flight...
May 1, 2010 | Augustine Committee, Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden urged aerospace veterans on Friday to support President Obama’s initiative to develop a commercial space industry that can transport astronauts to Earth orbit as part of a long range international effort to resume human deep...
Apr 27, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Space Research
NASA’s space shuttle program has received a brief reprieve from retirement. The last of three missions still remaining had been scheduled for a Sept. 16 launching aboard the shuttle Discovery. On Monday, shuttle managers moved the planned July 29 launching of...
Apr 23, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, International Space Station, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA
Source: Los Angeles Times The agency may send the Orion capsule to the International Space Station in three years, Administrator Bolden says at a Senate hearing. NASA may be able to send a new vessel to the International Space Station within three years to provide...
Apr 22, 2010 | Augustine Committee, Commercial Space, Constellation Program, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, The Moon
President Obama’s plans to cancel NASA’s Constellation Program in favor of major new investments in commercial space transportation for astronauts and a future mission to Mars faced new bi-partisan criticism on Thursday from the Senate Appropriations...
Mar 30, 2010 | International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA
NASA’s 13-day, STS-131 mission by the shuttle Discovery will mark a couple of spaceflight milestones, the first times four women and two Japanese have been in space at the same time. Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space...