Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Journey Was A Nightmare
Fortunately the space shuttle Endeavour didn't have any pressing space launches to make when it rolled into the California Science Center Sunday afternoon — 16 hours late. The retired orbiter left Los...
View ArticleFantastic GIF Shows Space Shuttle Wing Almost Colliding With A Tree
The Space Shuttle Endeavour made its way through the cramped streets of Los Angeles over the weekend in a 12-mile journey that turned out to be quite a headache.The shuttle arrived at its final resting...
View ArticleEndeavour Is Homeless Until Its New Owners Raise $100 Million
After one cross-country plane ride, four weeks in a temporary hangar, and a nightmarish 12-mile, 3-day journey through the city streets of Los Angeles, the Space Shuttle Endeavour finally made it to...
View ArticlePart Of The Space Shuttle Enterprise May Have Been Ripped Off During...
Count Space Shuttle Enterprise as another one of Sandy's victims.The 60-foot-high pavilion protecting the space shuttle aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's flight deck collapsed during...
View ArticleAnd Now, A Massive Space Shuttle Encased In Shrink Wrap
NASA's space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the Kennedy Space Center Vistor Complex earlier this month, where it will be showcased in an exhibit once the museum opens next summer. Until then, the retired...
View ArticleThe Material That Protects The Space Shuttle From Heat Is Amazing
This is incredible.Even after being in an 2,200 degree Fahrenheit oven for hours, the material that make up the space shuttle's thermal tiles dissipates heat so quickly that it is safe to touch (at the...
View ArticleWhere To See NASA's Space Shuttles This Summer
With the opening of the space shuttle Atlantis' permanent exhibit in Florida on Saturday (June 29), the last of NASA's retired space planes will be officially on display for the public to enjoy, but...
View Article11 Breathtaking Images From The Final Space Shuttle Launches
America's last space shuttle missions occurred in 2011, with the successful launches of Discovery, Endeavor, and Atlantis. Photojournalist Dan Winters captured these landmark events with incredible...
View ArticleELON MUSK: We're Only A Decade Away From Putting Humans On Mars
"To infinity, and beyond" seems to be Elon Musk's motto these days.The electric car tycoon recently announced his intention to revolutionize the solar energy industry. Now Musk is setting his sights on...
View ArticleAmerican Apparel Is Sorry For Its Epic July 4th Social Media Fail
This is probably one of the worst social media slip-ups a company could make. Especially on the Fourth of July.On Thursday, American Apparel posted a photo of the Challenger explosion, apparently...
View ArticleWe Asked A NASA Astronaut What His Scariest Moment Was
What makes space travel such a remarkable achievement is how absolutely perilous the mission is for human kind. And no one knows the treacherous journey more than the astronauts who trek it.Former NASA...
View ArticleHere's What It Feels Like To Rocket Into Outer Space
Many astronauts agree that the few minutes following lift-off are some of the most terrifying moments of space travel. Luckily, former Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who retired last year, is happy...
View ArticleIsrael's New Airport Will Be Named After Astronaut Killed In Space Shuttle...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An airport planned for Israel's southern desert is being billed as a wartime alternative to Tel Aviv, which was briefly shunned by most foreign carriers in July because of...
View ArticleThis fascinating graphic shows the world's human-carrying spacecraft to scale
The awe-inspiring history of human spaceflight is filled with a myriad of awesome and often gigantic vehicles."Human spaceflight is what truly inspires people to believe that we as a species are...
View ArticleElon Musk's rocket landing Tuesday may have 'failed' but he's on the brink of...
On Tuesday, April 14 the commercial spaceflight company SpaceX attempted the near impossible when it tried to land one of its Falcon 9 rockets on a floating platform 200 miles off the coast of...
View ArticleThis is the piece of sci-fi technology Neil deGrasse Tyson really wants
Lightsabers. Hoverboards. Cloaking devices. The Iron Man suit.All of these would be awesome if we could pull them out of their science fiction universes and into the real world.But Neil deGrasse Tyson,...
View ArticleBig Bird was almost on board the Challenger shuttle when it exploded
Big Bird, the giant yellow-feathered Sesame Street character, was offered a place on the doomed Challenger space shuttle mission but had to withdraw because his oversized costume would not fit in the...
View ArticleA Russian spaceship that was hurtling toward the Earth's atmosphere has now...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - An unmanned Russian spaceship loitering in orbit after a failed cargo run to the International Space Station plunged into Earth's atmosphere on Thursday, the Russian...
View ArticleHere's why some scientists are convinced there's life on Mars
Mars is no Earth.Our planet is swaddled in a nice atmospheric blanket that protects us from dangerous blasts of radiation that permeate space. Mars barely has any atmosphere and its surface is...
View ArticleRussia's multibillion-dollar space project is mired in corruption scandals
Moscow (AFP) - Designed to showcase a revamped space industry and divert attention from recent failures, Russia's multi-billion-dollar project to build its own space launch pad to take over from...
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