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(2009-03-15)
Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off from the Cape. March 15th 2009. Awesome Photo by: Bill Turner of Tequesta, Florida 160 mile south of the launch site. [Read More]
Did Bat Hitch a Ride to Space? (2009-03-18)The bat, seen clinging to the external fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery before its launch on Sunday , apparently clung for dear life to the side of the tank as the spaceship lifted off. ... [Read More]
NASA buys 24 seats aboard Russian Soyuz space vehicles (2009-04-19)NASA plans on buying up to 24 seats aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft to fly astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after the Space Shuttle is retired. NASA’s Johnson Space Center, ... [Read More]
The Greatest Machine Ever Built (2009-07-07)Forty Eight years ago (May 25, 1961) U.S. president John Kennedy announced the goal of landing Americans on the Moon by the end of the decade. Kennedy's ambitious speech triggered a nearly ... [Read More]
NASA Will Pay Russians For Rides To Station (2009-08-11)CAPE CANAVERAL: Nasa plans to use $50 million (R400m) of federal economic stimulus funds to seed development of commercial passenger transportation service to space, agency officials said yesterday. ... [Read More]
THE CONCEPTS WERE THERE; SO WERE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. SO WHAT HAPPENED? AND IS ARES NEXT? (2009-08-23)By Shelby G. Spires Times Aerospace Writer The American space program has no set goals, faces changing priorities and has axed multi-billion dollar projects every few years. A few examples: NASA ... [Read More]
ATK to Test First 5-Segment Ares Rocket Motor (2009-08-27)Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) Space Systems and NASA will make history on August 27 as the new Ares I five-segment first stage is tested, marking the start of a new era of space exploration. ... [Read More]
Air Force space plane shooting for April launch (2009-11-24)In a response to written questions, an Air Force spokesperson said the unmanned spaceship is scheduled for launch April 19 on an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The winged X-37B, also ... [Read More]
New Materials Designed To Deal With Hypersonic And Supersonic Hot Stuff (2010-01-08)ROCKET SCIENCE New Materials Designed To Deal With Hypersonic And Supersonic Hot Stuff Hypersonic vehicle in the upper atmosphere travelling at Mach 8, indicating heating in the leading edges and ... [Read More]
Preps Continue Toward a Targeted Feb. 7 Launch (2010-01-14)Preps Continue Toward a Targeted Feb. 7 Launch Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:28:37 AM CST At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers at Launch Pad 39A began loading fuel into space shuttle Endeavour's ... [Read More]
The X-37B and Beyond. The Future of the Space Plane (2010-01-15)I have been wondering why the USAF created the X-37B? Why has the USAF and NASA gone in separate directions when it comes to accessing space. Basically it boils down to the mission and the money. The ... [Read More]
Paavo John Rahkonen dies at age 79 (2010-01-18)Saturday, January 16, 2010 > Paavo John Rahkonen 1930-2009 OGDEN, Utah USA — After three years of battling a rare incurable blood disease, American solid ... [Read More]
NASA: Good night moon, hello new rocket technology (2010-02-01)By SETH BORENSTEIN The Associated Press Monday, February 1, 2010; 4:11 PM WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is redirecting America's space program, killing NASA's $100 billion plans to return ... [Read More]
Astronauts visit Stennis (2010-03-28)By Jeremy Pittari, Item Staff Writer The Picayune Item STENNIS — Four of the six astronauts who recently took a space shuttle ride to the International Space Station shared the story of their ... [Read More]
X-37B Gets Ready For Launch (2010-04-16)The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is loaded into the 5 meter fairing for it's ride to orbit aboard an Atlas 5 rocket later this month. Since this is a top secret vehicle there is not much published ... [Read More]
Guenter Wendt, 85, 'Pad Leader' for NASA's moon missions, dies (2010-05-03)May 3, 2010 — Guenter Wendt, the original pad leader for NASA's manned space program who was the last man the Apollo astronauts saw before launching to the moon, died at his home in Merritt ... [Read More]
Scramjet Powers Historic First Flight of X-51A WaveRider (2010-05-30)PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, May 27, 2010 Source: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic vehicle, powered by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's scramjet engine, achieved ... [Read More]
I've been selected to attend the launch of STS-133 at the Kennedy Space Center Press Viewing Area!!! (2010-09-12)The Bayourat has been selected to view the launch of space shuttle Discovery (STS-133) from the press viewing area at the Kennedy Space Center just 3 miles from the launch pad. I was chosen from a ... [Read More]
Discovery's Emotional Roller Coaster (2010-11-06)Wow, words cannot describe what I have been through this week. I'll try to explain but my head is still spinning from the emotional rollercoaster that we call "human spaceflight". I arrived at KSC ... [Read More]
Gaseous Hydrogen Leak Repairs Completed. Testing To Follow. (2010-11-18)At NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, technicians are completing repairs on space shuttle Discovery's ground umbilical carrier plate (GUCP). On Nov. 17, the hydrogen vent line was ... [Read More]
X-37B Secret Space Plane Returns To Earth Under The Cloak Of Darkness (2010-12-03)At 1:16AM PST last night the X-37B secret space plane burned a hole through earths atmosphere in a fiery reentry and landing at Vandenberg AFB. The mini shuttle touched down autonomously on the ... [Read More]
How To Move A Secret Space Plane? With A Chevy Truck Of Course! (2010-12-14)Photos by Boeing Last week, the U.S. Air Force's X-37B unmanned space plane landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after completing a top-secret 220-day orbital space mission. It ... [Read More]
Ares 1 To Be Reborn As The Liberty Rocket (2011-02-08)NASA's scrapped Ares I rocket may see new life as part of a new private launch vehicle to provide commercial flights to space for satellites, cargo – and maybe even people, the companies proposing ... [Read More]
An Ariane 5 Rocket Sits Ready To Launch On Pad 3. On Top, ATV-2 Johannes Kepler. (2011-02-14)It's all systems go in Kourou for the launch of ATV-2. Let's hope the weather is not a factor. It is the rainy season there. It's important to the STS-133 Space Shuttle Discovery mission that the ... [Read More]
ATV Johannes Kepler operating flawlessly. After a spectacular launch viewed from the ISS (2011-02-17)ATV Johannes Kepler was launched today at 22:50:55 CET by an Ariane 5 to dock with the ISS ESA?s second Automated Transfer Vehicle, was launched today evening from Europe?s Spaceport in Kourou, in ... [Read More]
Stenis Test Stand Passes Review for Next-Generation Rocket Engine Testing (2011-03-31)Forty-five years after its first Saturn V rocket stage test and 35 years after its first space shuttle main engine test, the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center achieved a ... [Read More]
Eyes on the skies: Eastern Range tracks every launch. (2011-04-03)The Jonathan Dickinson Missile Tracking Annex, north of West Palm Beach, is operated by Computer Services Raytheon. (William Laakkonen, Martin County Amateur Radio Association) During the launch ... [Read More]
There Are Five Vehicles Competing To Succeed The Space Shuttle (2011-04-23)By Frank Morring, Jr. Washington U.S. spacecraft engineers with federal funding will pursue at least five different ways to replace the space shuttle in the next few years, from capsules that ... [Read More]
J-2X Development Engine E10001 Makes The Trip To Test Stand A-2 (2011-06-14)Source: http://www.nasa.gov It wasn't too many years ago that there was this thing about asking sports heroes after winning the big game, "So, what's next?" They would always dutifully answer "I'm ... [Read More]
Chat With Deputy Administrator Lori Garver About NASA's Future (2011-06-27)Want to learn more about NASA's future? Ask NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver on Tuesday, June 28 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT during a live video chat broadcast on NASA's UStream TV. ... [Read More]
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Next Generation J-2X Upper-Stage Engine (2011-07-21)CANOGA PARK, Calif., July 20, 2011 ? Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has successfully completed a chill test and 1.9 second ignition test of NASA?s J-2X engine at John C. Stennis Space Center, Miss. ... [Read More]
The International Space Station May Have To Be Abandoned! (2011-08-29)We have had a manned presence in space for the last 15 years straight. But all good things must come to an end. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station may have to be ... [Read More]
Chinese Successfully Test Their Space Plane To Mach 15 Speeds From 60 Miles Altitude (2011-09-12)By Craig Covault Cape Canaveral, Fla.- Details emerging from China indicate the Chinese have likely flight tested for the first time a secret 4 ton winged spaceplane that was rocketed into a 60 mi. ... [Read More]
NASA's Current Program Called An "Embarrasment" By Neil Armstrong! "The Space Program To No Where" (2011-09-22)WASHINGTON — Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, told lawmakers Thursday that the end of the space shuttle era has left the American human spaceflight program in an ... [Read More]
X-37B Will Remain In Orbit Longer Then 270 Days (2011-12-01)The US Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane, launched on March 5, 2011, was designed to fly for 270 days. Day 270 came yesterday, but the military branch has decided to prolong its ... [Read More]
Orion, Our Future Spacecraft Undergoes Simulated Space Testing (2011-12-02)It's not every day that America designs an entirely new spacecraft. Rarer still is the creation of a vehicle that can carry man, not just machine, beyond the earth's gravitational pull. In the ... [Read More]
NASA Dependent On Russian Soyuz Space Taxi For At Least Five More Years (2011-12-18)(Reuters) - Budget cuts in a program to spur commercial space taxis will likely keep the United States dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station until 2017, NASA's ... [Read More]
Mensch in the Moon: The Lost Story Of Abe Silverstein (2012-02-19)This article was first published by Jewish Ideas Daily ( http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/ ) and is reprinted with permission. Right now there are two Americans aboard the International Space ... [Read More]
50 years after John Glenn's flight, The US Has To Buy Rides To Space (2012-02-21)Reuters/Cape Canaveral, Florida Fifty years after John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, Nasa no longer has the ability to fly astronauts in space, a decision Glenn lays squarely on ... [Read More]
Landmark launch in rocketry: Centaur makes Flight 200 (2012-02-24)Spaceflight Now Atlas Launch Report Landmark launch in rocketry: Centaur set for Flight 200 The venerable U.S. upper stage rocket -- the Centaur -- that created the pathway to the Moon and ... [Read More]
The Legacy of Discovery (2012-06-12)(Image: Mark Avino, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) The chance to see the Air France Concorde, the second world war Hawker Hurricane and the undeniably evil-looking ... [Read More]
God Speed Sally Ride, Rest In Peace (2012-07-24)AMERICA'S FIRST WOMEN IN SPACE! In a space agency filled with trailblazers, Sally K. Ride was a pioneer of a different sort. The soft-spoken California physicist broke the gender ... [Read More]
X-37B Prepares For Return To Orbit (2012-09-27)The highly mysterious X-37B OTV-3 (Orbital Test Vehicle) – which is, essentially, a drone boosted into orbital spaceflight – is being prepared for its third top secret space flight in ... [Read More]
NRC Panel Questions Business Case For USAF Reusable Booster (2012-10-17)The U.S. Air Force’s Reusable Booster System (RBS) lacks a mature business case, but the service should continue to pursue key technology challenges as well as a pathfinder ... [Read More]
Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano Are Now Tweeting From Space (2013-05-30)Photographers take pictures of the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-09M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station. Photo: AP An ... [Read More]
NASA Selects Space Florida To Take Over Shuttle Landing Strip (2013-07-01)Cape Canaveral - Nasa has selected Space Florida, a state-backed economic development agency, to take over operations, maintenance and development of the space shuttle's idled landing site at ... [Read More]
X-37b Space Plane Returns (2022-11-16)The Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is shown at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022. The unmanned U.S. military space plane landed early Saturday ... [Read More]
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