Astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Christopher Cassidy staged a 4-hour 54-minute spacewalk today, the fifth and final excursion planned for the shuttle Endeavour’s space station assembly mission. Read More at Spaceflight Now…
The Endeavour astronauts prepared the shuttle for undocking from the International Space Station Tuesday after five spacewalks to attach a new experiment platform, replace aging solar array batteries and to attach spare parts to the lab’s main truss. Read More at Spaceflight Now…
Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: As NASA celebrates its greatest triumph, the space agency also is facing its biggest wave of uncertainty in decades. Read More at MSNBC…
The combined 13-member crew of the shuttle-station complex enjoyed a day off Saturday, taking a break after a grueling week and a half of work that included four spacewalks, internal and external equipment transfers and the precisely coordinated use of three robotic arms. Read More at Spaceflight Now…
Despite rumors that NASA’s next-gen human space-flight program would be severely cut back or scuttled, Obama’s Human Spaceflight Plans Committee said today that no such decision had been made. Read More at Wired News…
NASA managers terminated a spacewalk today when astronaut Chris Cassidy’s carbon dioxide levels showed an upward trend due to a problem with his spacesuit’s CO2 removal system. Read More at Spaceflight Now…
The four children in the front row of the videoconference with NASA Engineer Tom Benson have only heard accounts of the first moon landing on July 20, 1969.But some in the room of the Brownsburg Challenger Learning Center saw those first famous steps live on a grainy black and white television 40 years ago. Read [...]
Astroanut David Wolf, anchored to the end of the space station’s robot arm, has successfully transferred a fragile Ku-band antenna module to a storage platform on the lab’s solar array truss. Read More at Spaceflight Now…
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, famously called the feat a ?giant leap for mankind.? That leap 40 years ago today was made possible by scientific advances at the NASA Langley Research Center here. Read More at Richmond Times-Dispatch…
Astronauts David Wolf and Thomas Marshburn are preparing for a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk today to move critical spare parts to the International Space Station as a hedge against failures after the shuttle is retired. Read More at Spaceflight Now…