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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...

Clown is First Canadian Space Tourist, Blasts Off Today

Billionaire Cirque du soleil creator, Guy Laliberte, $35 million dollar vacation blasted off today, scheduled to reach the ISS on Oct 2 , along with two other astronauts. He is expected to return Oct 11. "...

Nova Scotia: Star Party - A Conversation With Outer Space

It was a typical misty morning on my early drive to Smiley Park, Nova Scotia. For a moment I regretted staying up until 3 am writing about horse racing in Moscow. But such is the life of a journalist. No high...

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...

First Canadian Space Tourist to Leave in Sept on Soyuz

Guy Laliberte, 95% shareholder of $1.2-billion Cirque de Soleil, is in training this week in Moscow preparing for his trip into outer space. He is expected to leave Earth in September on a Russian Soyuz space...

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...

Space Shuttles Will Be Sold After 2010 Retirement - NASA

NASA has announced that the final three Space Shuttles will be sold after they are retired in 2010.  After nearly 30 years of service, and over 120 missions into orbit, NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet will...

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...

International Space Station celebrates 10th birthday

International Space Station, an experimental lab for the study of influences of space on life and a huge international cooperation effort, is turning 10 today. Aside from 19 sophisticated labs, the station...

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