1 Jun 2011, 09:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the second time in less than half a year, a space shuttle has landed on the tarmac of the Kennedy Space Center for the last time. The second to last space shuttle of the NASA manned space progra...
1 Jun 2011, 05:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Finally, the entire world will know whether the Red Planet is indeed red. NASA's next vehicle on Mars, rover Curiosity, is equipped with cameras that, unlike the ones fitted on the previous two...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
28 Apr 2011, 07:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The second space shuttle of the last three such vehicles has been cleared by NASA to take off on its last mission on April 29. Provided nothing weather related happens until then, the final departur...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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