Aaron Cohen, an engineer who worked on the spacecraft used in the Apollo moon program and who later, as director of the Johnson Space Center, helped NASA recover after the Challenger explosion, died Feb. 25 at his home in College Station, Tex. He was 79.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will present a conference April 15 in Florida on the country’s future in space exploration, the White House announced Saturday.
How far is it to the moon? How would you measure it? Did the Apollo astronauts have odometers on their craft to measure the miles?
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA will try to get space shuttle Endeavour back home Sunday night, but the weather may not cooperate on both sides of the country.
London, England (CNN) — A hovering Toblerone and a silky-white residue join near-misses and strange lights in the British government’s latest release of its files on UFO sightings.
Astronauts Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patrick prepared for a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk Saturday to hook up ammonia coolant lines between the new Tranquility module and the International Space Station.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — The Air Force says a high-powered laser has destroyed a missile in flight during a test of a national defense system off the California coast.
The successful test is a boost to a program that has had billions in cost overruns and saw its budget sharply cut by the Pentagon [...]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts swung open the door to the International Space Station’s newest room Friday night, using flashlights to illuminate the shadowy chamber and wearing goggles and masks to keep themselves safe from any floating debris.
Of course, this must be a hoax, because I’m looking out my window and I see it’s snowing. Clearly, that disproves everything “science” says about global warming. La la la laaa, I can’t hear you!
NASA canned today’s planned launch of its Solar Dynamics Observatory from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station due to unfavourable wind conditions.
SDO will, once it gets aloft, “determine how the Sun’s magnetic field is generated, structured, and converted into violent solar events like turbulent solar wind, solar flares, and Coronal Mass Ejections”.
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104 Nuclear Power Plants – Reactors in the US and Counting
OCZ launches ultra-affordable Solid State Drives
Luxury Cars – BMW Reports Smaller-Than-Expected Profit Decline
Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates in world rich list
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