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Τhere’s a space ship outside!
Space Shuttle Endeavour crawls through central LA on its final journey to new home Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk
Space Shuttle Enterprise Arrives in NY
April 27, 2012
Space Shuttle Era: Ferry Flights
April 9, 2012
NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Discovery mounted atop will fly approximately 1,500 feet above various parts of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, April 17. The flight, in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration, is scheduled to occur between 10 and 11 a.m. EDT. NASA Television and the agency’s web […]
McCandless Orbits in Jetpack
November 7, 2011
On Feb. 12, 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless, ventured further away from the confines and safety of his ship than any previous astronaut had ever been. This space first was made possible by a nitrogen jet propelled backpack, previously known at NASA as the Manned Manuevering Unit or MMU. After a series of test maneuvers inside […]
The Best Space Shuttle Tribute Video
July 22, 2011
Remembering what it was to be 10 and in awe of the future There are a bunch of videos out there paying tribute to the end of the final flight of one of the most complicated pieces of technology ever conceived — the Space Shuttle. Despite a childhood spent dreaming of becoming an astronaut, running […]
Space shuttles united – a video tribute
July 21, 2011
With Atlantis safely home, this Nature video combines footage from all 135 space shuttle missions to create one epic journey “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.” Surely nothing better embodies Robert Browning’s sentiment than space exploration. Today, an era of human spaceflight came to a close, with wheelstop of STS-135, the final space shuttle […]
Watch Final Shuttle Landing Live
July 21, 2011
Nasa’s shuttle programme comes to an end as Kennedy Space Centre awaits Atlantis’ landing ……. (update) Space shuttle Atlantis has landed in Florida. NASA shuttle program is now over with Atlantis’ successful space station resupply mission….
U.S. space shuttle spawned heart pump, fly by wire
July 20, 2011
As the United States prepares to end its space shuttle program, technologies developed to nurture the reusable spaceships through three decades of flight will live on in day-to-day use on Earth. Shuttle Atlantis and its four-member crew are due back at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:57 a.m. EDT on Thursday after a […]
An Amazing View
July 16, 2011
This panoramic view was photographed from the International Space Station toward Earth, looking past space shuttle Atlantis’ docked cargo bay and part of the station, including a solar array panel. The photo was taken as the joint complex passed over the southern hemisphere. Aurora Australis or the Southern Lights can be seen on Earth’s horizon […]
Yeast Rising to the Space Station
July 15, 2011
Chefs across the globe may not know it yet, but their baker’s yeast just left the kitchen and blasted off into low Earth orbit. Hitching a ride on the space shuttle Atlantis on July 8, 2011, the samples will be grown on the International Space Station as part of the Genotypic and Phenotypic Changes in […]
Video: Shuttle docks with space station for last time
July 10, 2011
http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xju97e The US space shuttle Atlantis has arrived at the International Space Station on the final flight of the Nasa shuttle programme.
Bees, frogs, monkeys and jellyfish… the weird and wonderful creatures that joined Nasa’s shuttle programme over the years
July 10, 2011
With the final lift-off in Nasa’s space shuttle programme only hours away, weather permitting, people across the world are turning their attention to what has been a remarkable 30 years. Most of the focus is be on the scientific achievements and tragic loss of 14 lives in the Challenger and Columbia disasters. But it wasn’t […]
Space shuttle Atlantis final launch
July 9, 2011
Final countdown: The space shuttle’s last ever mission
July 8, 2011
Thirty years after the first blast-off, David Usborne reports from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on the end of an era Dotted across the sprawling campus that is the John F. Kennedy Space Centre in Florida are blue and white signs designed to get the thousands of workers here pepped up. “1 Days to Launch”, […]
October 14, 2012
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