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The Space Shuttle Passes The Sun
The Space Shuttle Passes The Sun
Pictured is the space shuttle Atlantis rotating into its docking position with the International Space Station. The photo was taken from Spain as the spacecraft passes the sun. The photographer only had .53 seconds to capture this image. [] ...
Nov 21, 2024
Honey... I Think The Space Shuttle Wants To Pass
Honey... I Think The Space Shuttle Wants To Pass
Taken by a NASA employee after a Shuttle landing as it's being transported to the hangar bay. [] ...
Nov 21, 2024
Atlantis Hits It One Last Time
Atlantis Hits It One Last Time
An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle patrols Florida airspace during the final launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in May. Adios, shuttle program — we're gonna miss ya. [ via ] ...
Nov 21, 2024
Japan Unfurls World's First Functional Solar Sail
Japan Unfurls World's First Functional Solar Sail
Japan's launched the first functional aboard the satellite Ikaros. The 2,100-sq-ft sail uses reflected solar photons to provide minute, but constant and fuel-free propulsion. Scientists and engineers will now test the system's control and thrust capabilities. [] ...
Nov 21, 2024
The Rocket-Car Man Who Helped Put Us On The Moon
The Rocket-Car Man Who Helped Put Us On The Moon
He drove his rocket car 150 mph in the 1920s. He founded the rocketeering society whose members put America on the Moon. He died a rocketeer’s death. His name was Max Valier. This is his story. Valier was born in 1895 in the southwestern reaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in...
Nov 21, 2024
The Nazi Rocket Plane to Nuke New York From Orbit
The Nazi Rocket Plane to Nuke New York From Orbit
V-2’s falling on London were just the beginning. Had the Nazis had their way, Mach 22 bombers would have devastated America from space. The scary thing? The concept was not entirely insane. This is the story of Eugen Sänger’s Silbervogel. Nazi Germany may have lost the war but certainly not...
Nov 21, 2024
UFO Spotted Over China?
UFO Spotted Over China?
Chinese authorities spotted a UFO on July 7th. A ? A new Chinese missile test? A secret U.S. bomber? Or perhaps just ? You decide. Video below. ...
Nov 21, 2024
UFO Spotted Over China... Again!
UFO Spotted Over China... Again!
Chinese witnesses claim they've spotted the same UFO we told you for a second time. Now it's hovering over Chonqing's Shaping park for more than an hour. Spooky. [via ] Chinese authorities spotted a UFO over an airport in Hangzhou, China on July 7th. A Russian… ...
Nov 21, 2024
Buy NASA's Human Training Centrifuge And Pretend You're An Astronaut
Buy NASA's Human Training Centrifuge And Pretend You're An Astronaut
NASA's Human Training Centrifuge — an awesome piece of the space race history — was for sale on eBay and nobody bid. For just $12 million, you could've had the largest human centrifuge ever built and trained like an astronaut. The Johnsville Centrifuge lives inside the Naval Air Development Center...
Nov 21, 2024
How To Drive On Mars
How To Drive On Mars
In "," author Mary Roach details the strange science of putting humans in space. In this exclusive excerpt she details how we're practicing for driving on Mars in a remote and barren wasteland here on Earth. — Ed. Once upon a time, astronauts tooled around the moon in an open...
Nov 21, 2024
World's Largest Amateur Space Rocket Set To Launch
World's Largest Amateur Space Rocket Set To Launch
Next Monday, a small group of crazy Danish geniuses their into space, after towing it to the launch site via their homebuilt submarine. Who needs NASA? The non-profit firm known as Copenhagen Suborbital left port with the Heat1X-TychoBrae rocket on Friday, towing the rocket and its launching pad to a...
Nov 21, 2024
Get Your Vintage NASA On at The Flickr Commons
Get Your Vintage NASA On at The Flickr Commons
NASA a wealth of great photos to Flickr, including all manner of planes, spaceship, men, and, curiously, cows. is a man, research pilot , after testing the HL-10 lifting body in 1969. are a bunch of cows which used to live on a patch of Houston land before it was...
Nov 21, 2024
Hurricane Earl As Seen From The Space Station
Hurricane Earl As Seen From The Space Station
The astronauts in the International Space Station have the best (and safest) view of as its 125 mph winds spin toward the Outer Banks of North Carolina and onward to New England. Photo Credit: NASA/Douglas Wheelock ...
Nov 21, 2024
For Sale: One Space Shuttle, 120 Million Miles
For Sale: One Space Shuttle, 120 Million Miles
Clever Craigslist tribute or a cunning diss of NASA policy? . ...
Nov 21, 2024
Fly To The Edge Of Space In A Russian Fighter Jet
Fly To The Edge Of Space In A Russian Fighter Jet
Climbing 65,000 feet into the stratosphere in a MiG-31 usually involves enlisting in the Russian Air Force, but leave it to the Russians to give you the supersonic jet fighter experience at a value price of just $25,000. The program's called the "Edge Of Space" and offers a trip to...
Nov 21, 2024
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