• Last spacewalk of the space shuttle program in the books

    Updated: 2011-05-27 14:50:16
    Another chapter in the space shuttle program has come to a close as STS-134 astronauts Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff completed the final scheduled spacewalk in the 30-year-old shuttle program’s history. The seven-hour, 24-minute spacewalk finished at 7:39 a.m., the last of four spacewalks on this mission, tallying 28 hours and 44 minutes in space. Today, the [...]

  • Infographic: A look at NASA’s new manned spacecraft

    Updated: 2011-05-25 17:13:39
    The folks at Space.com put together this infographic on the Muti-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), which NASA announced would be America’s next manned spacecraft after the retirement of the space shuttle fleet. It uses plans for the Orion Crew Vehicle program that in motion for the now-defunct endeavor to return to the moon. Source SPACE.com: [...]

  • NASA to keep ‘Orion’ crew capsule

    Updated: 2011-05-24 22:20:26
    WASHINGTON — NASA today made official what the space community had anticipated for months: that the agency would keep developing the Orion crew capsule — once part of the now-defunct Constellation moon program — as NASA’s next astronaut transportation vehicle. Its fate initially was in jeopardy when President Barack Obama unveiled a NASA plan in February [...]

  • Atlantis set to launch on grand finale morning of July 8

    Updated: 2011-05-20 21:23:44
    NASA has finally set the target for its very last space shuttle launch from Kennedy Space Center — 11:40 a.m. July 8. That’s a Friday. The blastoff of space shuttle Atlantis will be the 135th and final launch of the 30-year space shuttle program. Atlantis will carry just four astronauts – all veterans of previous space flights. [...]

  • $2 billion physics experiment attached to space station

    Updated: 2011-05-19 21:44:16
    NASA reported that space shuttle Endeavour astronauts successfully completed their primary mission this morning — delivering and attaching the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to a truss outside the International Space Station. The task was done over several hours in the middle of the night as astronauts used robotic arms from both the shuttle and the [...]

  • Endeavour astronauts install $2 billion AMS on the International Space Station

    Updated: 2011-05-19 15:25:13
    The primary payload of STS-134 has been successfully installed on the International Space Station. Mission specialists Andrew Feustel and Roberto Vittori used space shuttle Endeavour’s robotic arm to pick up the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 from the orbitor payload bay, hand it off to the ISS’s robotic arm Canadarm2, and Endeavour Pilot Greg Johnson and mission specialist [...]

  • Space shuttle Endeavour docks with ISS

    Updated: 2011-05-18 16:46:37
    Space shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station this morning and the six astronauts of STS-134 joined the crew of six on Expedition 27. The shuttle docked at 6:14 a.m. on the ISS Harmony Node and the hatch opened at 7:38 a.m. The 12 will remain together until May 23 when ISS crew members Dmitry [...]

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