Archive for July 3, 2008
NASA Debuts Web Site for First Ares Test Flight
NASA is developing new spacecraft, the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule, to deliver astronauts to the ISS and send them on their way to the moon. The first test flight of the spacecraft, Ares I-X, is scheduled to launch in spring 2009.
Mercury space capsule visits Alton
ALTON – Space capsules rarely are seen by River Benders unless they are visiting a museum, but one landed this week in the front yard of a North Alton home.