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It was a teary farewell for the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle Discovery and the International space Station, as Discovery makes its return journey to mother earth. Clayton Anderson who had spent five months in orbit is now headed home to be...
Russia’s Mission control spokesperson stated that a Russian cargo ship has successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after a three-day orbit flight.
The Russian cargo is carrying more than 2.5 tons of supplies and equipment....
NASA expects to have twice the room it needs on the international space station after looking at a proposal to use the station as a "National Laborartory" for U.S researchers after its completion in 2010.
NASA is planning a partnership with an...
June 8 will be the date that engineers and astronauts of space shuttle Atlantis would have been waiting for. Managers at the space agency have announced that the first shuttle of this year will be launched on June 8.
The decision was taken after a...
Russian cosmonauts and an astronaut stationed at the International Space Station are soon to receive their 2.5 tons of daily required amenities – be it oxygen, water food, books, movies or scientific equipments. Thanks to the Soyuz-U booster rocket...
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Space explorations and navigations have taken a giant leap and have given mankind all those state of the art technological breakthroughs that we could never even think of. In order to increase the mankind’s survival possibilities “space explorations”...
After delays, Discovery begins mission to rewire International space station. Low clouds forced the space agency to scrub a launch attempt Thursday night during a countdown that ran down to the wire. Managers decided not to try again Friday because...
NASA is hoping to launch its third mission in six months and get a jump on the looming deadline to finish International Space Station assembly before the shuttle fleet is retired in 2010. However, the clouds of concern gathered for Thursday night’s...
Often solar activity goes unnoticed on Earth, but this one will surely grab every ones attention. The Sun is just past its low-point in an 11-year cycle of activity. But big eruptions can happen anytime. One just did.
A major X-9 flare erupted...
Once again, the shuttle Discovery will blast into space and once again, it will dock with the International Space Station. And it all comes to continue the process of building the half-completed orbiting laboratory in a mission full of nerve-racking...
NASA's plans for returning people to the moon is now getting its shape but referring NASA’s plans as just returning people to the moon won’t be enough. The reasons for returning people to the moon after so many years are now getting extremely strong....
It is again good news in the pretext of International Space Station (ISS) after the shutting down of CMG 3, which apparently had no impact to the safety or operation of the ISS.
A cargo rocket starting a three-day journey to the orbital outpost...
After a nine-day visit to the International Space Station, the space shuttle Discovery prepared for a return back to earth. If the weather is favourable and the shuttle passes final inspection, it is supposed to land today at Kennedy Space Centre in...
Humans can even aspire to grow crops and manage a garden in space! Can we grow food in microgravity? To satiate this intrusiveness, the space shuttle Discovery scheduled to launch July 1, will carry the research of Miami University professor John...
Food and equipments have reached the International Space Station successfully. According to the Russian space agency, an unmanned Russian Progress M-57 cargo vessel that was carrying two and a half tonnes of food, water, fuel and scientific...
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