Big astronauts don’t cry on Endeavour’s last mission
This Wednesday morning, Andrew Feustel and Mike Fincke floated out on a spectacular 6 hour long spacewalk outside the International ...
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China on the moon: rover by 2013, samples by 2017 and manned landing by 2025
How's your Mandarin? If it's as rusty as mine, we'd do best and brush up on it since it seems ...
NASA to announce permanent homes for retired shuttles
Exactly 30 years ago, the first orbital space shuttle launch took place, marking the start of a slew of successful ...
Incredible photo of the Milky Way arch
Once again NASA's amazing "astronomy picture of the day" feature provides us with pure gold. The above captioned stunning photo ...
Space junk didn’t hit the International Space Station – red alert canceled
Remarkably, a growing issue NASA scientists face everyday is space junk - tiny bits of scrap, bolts, rocket modules from ...
Secret military orbital plane spotted by astronomers
As a somewhat interesting story, I've just read on SpaceWeather that the new sub-orbital pseudo-shuttle military space plane, the X-37B, ...
Mars space suit tested by NASA in Antarctica
Argentine aerospace engineer Pablo de Leon (L), a NASA team member, tests a space suit designed for possible use in ...
Coldest star so far found – not hotter than a cup of coffee
Astronomers usually classify stellar objects by a spectra going from hotter to cooler, using the letters O, B, A, F, ...
[PHOTOS] How NASA imagined in the 1970s space stations would like in the future
In a time when a thing called the space race was in full swing, technological advance and cocky egos made ...
Messenger spacecraft to enter Mercury orbit
After a six year journey in which it traveled over 6 billion miles, the Messenger spacecraft is finally anticipated to ...
First Space Fueling Station used for servicing satellites by 2015
A lot of critics are raving towards the end of the space exploration age, as aerospace budgets get ever thinner, ...
Cocaine found at Kennedy Space Center… again
NASA's Inspector General's Office says an investigation is under way after a white powdery substance found at the Kennedy Space ...
NASA’s 2012 budget – $18.7 Billion
Earlier today Obama's administration budget plan for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was proposed to $18.7 billion, at the ...
