ISS Tracking : Keeping Track of the International Space Station

Orbiting the Earth at an altitude of about 400 km, the International Space Station (ISS) is humanity’s largest and longest-lived home and workplace in space. The ISS, a scientific laboratory and observatory, permanently houses as many as six men and women from over a...

Did Jamie Dimon Almost Lose His Chairmanship Because He Dared To

http://economicrisis.com/did-jamie-dimon-almost-lose-his-chairmanship-because-he-dared-to-criticize-obama/9521 Did Jamie Dimon Almost Lose His Chairmanship Because He Dared To Criticize Obama? Dimon has also been a fierce critic of President Obama’s economic policies,...

SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Connects with ISS

Milestone in Space Travel as Dragon Meets ISS SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has been successfully captured by the INternational Space Station, marking a milestone in space travel. This is the first time a commercial...

Space Shuttle Launch February 24: Watch Live

Watch STS-133 Space Shuttle Launch Live via NASA, SpaceFlightNow The Space Shuttle Discovery is launching on February 24 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 4:50pm local time. You can watch the Space Shuttle launch live...

Christmas Greetings from Space

ISS Crewmembers Wish You Season's Greetings Good people of Earth: members of the International Space Station Expedition #26 just want to wish you a happy holiday season. They're phoning (and videoing) it in from...

UFOs Approach the Shuttle While Docked at The ISS?

Take a look at this footage that seems to show to UFOs approaching the Space Shuttle while docked at the International Space Station.  The two UFOs then completely stop and the appear to be observing the...

Space Station to be Crashed in 2016?

""In the first quarter of 2016, we'll prep and de-orbit the spacecraft," says NASA's space station program manager, Michael T. Suffredini. That's a polite way of saying that NASA will make the space station fall...

ISS: where do you go, when you want to go?

If you want to go and the toilet is broken, where do you go? Well, if you need to do just the number one, then the yard will work just fine. But what if you're inside the International Space Station?"Astronauts...

STS-125 Shuttle Atlantis Landing Delayed Until at Least Saturday

The space shuttle Atlantis is stuck in orbit for at least another day as stormy weather prevented them from touching down at Cape Canaveral at their planned 10am EDT landing time on Friday. The shuttle, with seven...

STS-125 Space Shuttle Atlantis Landing Set for Friday at 10am EDT

As the space shuttle Atlantis' crew made final checks on their flight systems, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station tried out the new water recycling system. The ISS is getting ready to double the...

Colbert Gets Treadmill Named After Him on Space Station

Despite winning the votes to name the new wing for the international space station, Stephen Colbert's name won't be appearing on the side of the new lab, but it will be on the new treadmill. NASA has decided to name the treadmill the 'Combined Operational Load Bearing...

ISS mission prolonged over landing site issues

The International Space Station mission will be delayed until April 8 due to the recently discovered problems with the scheduled landing site for Soyuz TMA-13 carrying astronauts Yury Lonchakov (Russia) and Michael Fincke (USA), as well as space tourist and billionaire...

Space Shuttle Docks at International Space Station

The space shuttle Discovery has docked at the International Space Station. One of the tasks for the crew is to install some replacement parts for the water recycling system, which will clean and purify reclaimed...

Canada's Space Program

Canada has an active space program, the CSA. Some of its products have been vital to the soon-ending Space Shuttle program, to the Hubble space telescope, and the International Space Station could hardly have been constructed without the robot arms. The CSA, working with...

Happy Thanksgiving, aboard the ISS

The new toilet is plumbed-in, the water recycling system is working and the jammed solar-wing has been repaired.  With space shuttle mission STS-126 nearly complete, the crew of the International Space...

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