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.
A NASA scientist has claimed the huge power of the Chile earthquake may have shifted the earth’s axis, causing our days to be shorter.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
We’ve posted a lot of space-related news lately, but this is hardly a surprise. This is the last operational year for the Space Shuttle, water was found on the moon, SpaceShip Two was unveiled and the Obama administration submitted a new roadmap for NASA’s future.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The launching of the space shuttle Endeavour was postponed a day because of thick clouds that moved during the last few hours of the countdown.
We’re in the final stages of the countdown of both STS-130, the final night launch of the space shuttle, and possibly the U.S. manned space program–at least for quite some time.
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