BEIJING, China — China has permitted reporters inside its space launch control room at Aerospace City close to Beijing as part of an attempt to join in the world’s space projects. The unusual visit by foreign reporters occurred as China seeks way in to the International Space Station, too to … Continue reading
BEIJING – China opened up the control room at Aerospace City in the Beijing suburbs – the nerve centre since where it has run its two manned space launches — to foreign observers yesterday as part of its labors to be built-in in joint space projects. The rare visit by … Continue reading
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The seven astronauts planned to fly aboard the space shuttle Discovery inwards at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday to prepare for Saturday’s planned liftoff. The flight, which is bound for the International Space Station, would be the shuttle’s second since the Columbia … Continue reading
Computer model begins “new era in space weather prediction,” scientists say Washington – Mainly true-to-life computer imitation ever made of the sun’s multimillion-degree outer atmosphere, the aura, productively predicted the corona’s actual look during the March 29 solar eclipse. Funded by NASA and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the … Continue reading
NASA is sponsoring a competition in which charming companies would get $500 million in seed money to expand space vehicles that the US space agency would never design, build or own. Like a U-Haul truck rental, NASA instead would just lease them on a per-trip basis for sending cargo and … Continue reading
Rubbish from the International Space Station has been fallen into the Pacific Ocean, around 4,000 kilometers off the coast of New Zealand. NASA says the majority of the trash was packed in the earlier supply craft, the Russian owned Progress M-55, which de-orbited. A spokesperson says the debris that did … Continue reading
During a practice journey through space, astronauts spend their days hovering in micro-gravity, the virtual lack of gravitational pull. That weightlessness affects a lot of systems in the human body. One established effect is the provisional impairment of the immune system. Wounds, for example, take longer to cure in space. … Continue reading
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA managers on Saturday chosen July 1 to launch the first space shuttle in approximately a year, despite recommendations beside a lift-off attempt by the space agency’s chief engineer and security offices. The decision to open Discovery on a trip to the International Space Station was … Continue reading
Washington D.C. – Amid lingering concerns about the shuttle’s fuel tank, NASA officials have determined to launch the space shuttle Discovery as intended on July 1 for a 12-day assignment to the International Space Station. It will be just the second flight since the Columbia tragedy in 2003. During a … Continue reading
By reaching for the moon and Mars, NASA is let go of aviation research that was the foundation for the nation’s journey into space. Some contend that cuts to aeronautics research — long one of the agency’s cornerstones – would endanger the country’s lead in aviation. NASA’s role in the … Continue reading