The space shuttle Discovery made a safe landing September 11, 2009 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The sonic boom that accompanies space shuttles as they enter the Earth's atmosphere rattled Los Angeles...
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Julie Payette said her farewells to her fellow Canadian Robert Thirsk on the International Space Station and has started it's return to earth. The shuttle landed in Florida at 10:48 am EDT. Endeavour spend...
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The launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour has been delayed until Sunday July 12 due to thunderstorms making it difficult for the craft to take off. The launch was already delayed by 24 hours due to lightning...
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The second STS-125 spacewalk mission is underway, as the Atlantis crew works to repair the Hubble Space Telescope's gyroscopes. These gyros give the telescope its sense of balance, enabling it to find and focus upon...
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When NASA launched the space shuttle Discovery on March 15, 2009 a little stow away went along for the ride. A small bat had attached itself to Discovery's external fuel tank and when the shuttle blasted off...
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One casualty of the STS-119 space shuttle mission: a tiny bat. Normally, sirens and general movement around the launch pad serve to scare off any bats or birds who land on the shuttle or its rocket, but one bat was...
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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...
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After the scheduled Wednesday launch was aborted when a hydrogen gas leak was discovered, NASA will attempt a second launch of the space shuttle Discovery on Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 7:43pm EST. The current weather...
North American Space Agency (NASA) is planning to lift off space shuttle Discovery on March 12. The mission is long overdue for take off. Delays caused by valve malfunctions have halted the mission for nearly a month...
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Today in history, the Space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing all seven astronauts aboard, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, the first member of...
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...
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This video contains an amazing documentation of Nasa and the Space Shuttle Mission STS 115. Nasa has continuously photographed UFOs in the past and this mission is no different. The footage...
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...
This is incredible footage of multiple UFOs filmed while unloading a payload of a satelite from the space shuttle . You can see a large number of orbs or UFOs surrounding the shuttle during the release of...