Shuttle Atlantis Heads for the Launch Pad
31 May 2011, 12:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As its sister space shuttle Endeavour is circling the Earth in preparation for its final landing (which will take place on Wednesday), the last of the breed of shuttles, the Atlantis, is taking a ve...
Lost in Space: NASA Gives Up on Mars Rover Spirit
25 May 2011, 07:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Another one of humanity's most interesting vehicles has been deemed lost to the adversities of space and other planets. After loosing contact with Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on March 22, 201...
NASA Presents New Deep Space Exploration Vehicle
25 May 2011, 05:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the space shuttle program coming to an end this year, the hopes of the dreamers seemed to have been shattered. With America having no space craft of its own, and with the other nations clearly ...
Group Challenges NASA's Unintended Acceleration Report
24 May 2011, 05:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you haven't gotten tired already of the debate surrounding the now historic Toyota unintended acceleration issues of last year, then here's, once again, a little something to get your b...
Tire Tracks Photo from Mars
19 May 2011, 09:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The slowest vehicle man has ever made is still at it, millions of miles from home, creeping along the Martian soil at an infernal speed of 50 mm/seconds (0.18 km/h). In late March, one little vehicl...
Endeavor Lifts Off
16 May 2011, 14:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The final mission of space shuttle Endeavor kicked off on Monday, carrying on board six astronauts and an entire load of supplies and equipment. The launch took place as planned at 8:56 a.m. EDT, un...
Endeavour to Depart on Final Trip on Monday
16 May 2011, 06:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Fuel began being poured into the tanks of space shuttle Endeavor on Monday morning, as the craft is getting ready to take off on her final trip to space at 8:56 a.m. EDT. Weather forecast show a 70 ...
Automotive X Prize Winner Brings Car to NASA
30 Apr 2011, 07:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ron Mathis, the man that led the team behind the Automotive X Prize winning design Edison2: Very Light Car (VLC), will be a featured quest of NASA's Langley Research Center on May 3, when he wi...
NASA Delays Endeavor Launch
30 Apr 2011, 06:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The day which was supposed to go down in history as the one during which space shuttle Endeavor departed Earth for the last time was pushed further into the year, after NASA engineers discovered a m...
Shuttle Endeavor to Take Off on April 29
20 Apr 2011, 07:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Unaware of the fact that 2011 is a historic year for the American space exploration program, the Russian space agency has somewhat messed things up for Endeavor, the space shuttle that is was origin...
NASA Funds Private Spaceship Builders
19 Apr 2011, 10:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the state-sponsored more or less regular space flight coming to an end this year, NASA is continuing to play an important role in the development of space exploration by announcing new funding ...
Shuttle Program Ends, Contractor to Lay Off 2,800 People
18 Apr 2011, 13:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Announced as the anticipated and honorable discharge of the space shuttles that have served humanity over the last three decades, the end of the space shuttle program is bound to cause its share of ...
Space Shuttles to Retire in Washington, California, Florida and New York
13 Apr 2011, 04:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Four iconic states and cities in the US will become this year the resting places for the four space shuttles that have made space history over the past three decades. Today NASA announced the museum...
Space Shuttles Resting Places to Be Announced on April 12
11 Apr 2011, 12:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are only two missions left until human kind's first reusable space crafts will enter the history books. Discovery has landed for the last time in March, Endeavor and Atlantis are to follo...
Rover Curiosity in the Flesh
7 Apr 2011, 08:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Space has become (or at least it will become) obsolete by the end of the year. Bored of flying to the lower orbit and back, humankind will once again turn its attention to the other bodies inhabitin...
Endeavor Launch Delayed, Space Traffic Jam at Blame
6 Apr 2011, 11:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Now this is something you don't see everyday... Who would have thought that the huge traffic jams that at times paralyze the roads of the world would expand into space, a realm usually defined ...
Discovery - First Space Shuttle to End a Career
29 Mar 2011, 09:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Number of missions: 39. Miles traveled: 148 million (238.2 million km). Number of times around the world: 5,830. Total time spent in space in its 27 years of active duty: one year. These are the...
Endeavor Getting Ready for Final Flight
25 Mar 2011, 09:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The almost year long end of the space shuttle program, which started with the final landing of the space shuttle Discovery on March 9, will enter a new stage next month, when the take-off of the sec...
Space Shuttle Made of Humans at Kennedy Space Center
21 Mar 2011, 12:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Decades of space exploration using perhaps human kind's most exciting vehicle ever, the space shuttle, will end this year, as soon as the remaining two crafts (Endeavour and Atlantis) land for ...
Space Shuttle Discovery Getting Ready for the Final Trip
16 Mar 2011, 09:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The NASA engineers that have been taking care of the space shuttle Discovery for the past years are now getting ready to perform the checks and preparations they have done repeatedly in the past one...