New uses for Space Station
For more than a decade, the International Space Station has been a busy orbiting research lab. But it could soon take on a new role…
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Enceladus rains water onto Saturn
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves…
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Bids Farewell to the Space Shuttle Program, Encourages Plan for Future Human Spaceflight
Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down at NASA Kennedy Space Center, officially bringing an end to the nation’s space shuttle program and a 30-year legacy of…
Atlantis Completes Final Space Shuttle Program Landing at 5:57 a.m. EDT
At 5:57 a.m. EDT, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey…
Space shuttle leaves space station for last time
A space shuttle left the International Space Station for the very last time Tuesday, heading home to end the 30-year run of a vessel that…
2nd Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Sends 1st Signals from Space
Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the second of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites it is building for the U.S. Air…
SPACEX BREAKS GROUND ON LAUNCH SITE FOR FALCON HEAVY
The World’s Most Powerful Rocket Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.– SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) today took another major step toward the first launch of the…
2nd Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Ready for Launch from Cape Canaveral
Boeing announced today that the second of 12 GPS IIF satellites it is building for the U.S. Air Force has successfully completed prelaunch testing. GPS…
Atlantis Lifts Off On Last Shuttle Mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson and his three crewmates are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from…
Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way
The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting “billion-pixel array†will…
Boeing Prepares Space Shuttle Atlantis for Final Mission
Dedicated workforce has supported shuttle program since 1972 Mission STS-135 will deliver critical supplies to International Space Station Boeing engineers and technicians are preparing Space…
NASA’S Hubble Makes One Millionth Science Observation
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one…
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