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...
Space Shuttle Discovery Lands for the End of an Era
10 Mar 2011, 07:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A very emotional moment took place yesterday at Cape Canaveral, Florida. On a clear sky and with the sun behind it, space shuttle Discovery glided down to Earth, as the STS 133 mission was about to ...
Nuclear War, the Solution to Global Warming
27 Feb 2011, 09:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Forget EVs. Forget all the efforts made by an entire industry to try and limit the amount of harmful gases released into the atmosphere, Forget the efforts of law makers to try and put a cap on the ...
Robonaut 2 Meets Astronaut
24 Feb 2011, 06:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The countdown to the historic day when the history's first humanoid robot will fly into outer space continues, with the final touches to what is to be the last mission of space shuttle Discover...
NASA Finds No Problem with Toyota, Auto Maker Happy
10 Feb 2011, 06:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Something went terribly wrong last year, when Toyota was forced to conduct the biggest recall the world has ever seen, but that something was not (we say again, was not) the electronic throttle cont...
Robonaut 2 to Predict Super Bowl MVP
3 Feb 2011, 06:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Having missed out on the opportunity to be the first humanoid robot to go into space in 2010 (and now waiting to become the first humanoid robot to go into space in 2011, NASA-willing), Robonaut 2 h...
Optimus Prime, the NASA Teacher
19 Jan 2011, 19:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It comes a time in everybody's life when they just want to quit. Give it all up, all the excitement of past days, the endless, at first glance, energy that powers them, all the glory of doing s...
Curiosity Searches for Life with SAM
19 Jan 2011, 10:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the past year or so, conspiracy theoreticians have joined hands and, building on the at times poorly timed and organized NASA press conferences, have decided that all the info about black holes,...