NASA announced yet another delay for the launch of the Discovery STS-119 mission to the International Space Station Friday, marking the fourth time the mission has been postponed. An all-day review of the craft’s readiness for launch left managers still under-confident about the operations of three hydrogen control valves that channel gaseous hydrogen from the main engines [...]
Morgan Community College?s Bloedorn Hall was packed with about 100 people Tuesday night who came to see former astronaut Joe Tanner.
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A Russian cargo ship carrying supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off Tuesday from the Baikonour cosmodrome, Russian state television pictures showed.
Explore strange, new worlds and seek out new life with a virtual trip aboard the starship Enterprise at the Detroit Science Center. “Star Trek: The Exhibition” opens Saturday with a cargo bay full of goodies for fans of the various incarnations of the classic TV and movie franchise.
It can be seen clearly, if you know where to look ? a faint, moving point of light in the night sky. Amateur observers, and the US military, have already spotted Iran’s first home-made satellite, called Omid, meaning “hope”, and they have picked up its radio signals, too. For just a few months, Omid will remain in space, along with the upper stage of the Safir-2 rocket that took the satellite …
1.How big is a chance that U.S. Senate and the Congress will introduce the ban on the contract between NASA and Russian Space Agency about the buying of the slots at the Russian “Soyuz” ships for the flights of US astronauts to the space station? Can you forecast the consequences?
