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USAF Lost Contact With It's New Mach 20 Hypersonic Glider During Test Flight (2010-04-27)

Launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. on April 22, the unmanned HTV-2 was planned to cross the Pacific and impact the ocean north of Kwajalein Atoll in the first of two flights to demonstrate ... [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]

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]

HTV-2 Collects Only Nine Minutes Of Data Before Communications Are Lost (2011-08-12)

Source: DARPA We don't know what happen but the HTV-2 collected unique data during several phases of the flight. DARPA attempted to fly the fastest aircraft ever built. The Agency?s Falcon ... [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]

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]