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President Obama Places Long Distance Call to the Shuttle And Space Station Crews
President Barack Obama praised crew members aboard space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station during a call to the docked ships from the White House on Friday. The president saluted the final shuttle mission and everyone who made it possible,...
UK Operators of Satellites See Operating Cost Reduction
Science Minister David Willetts has secured agreement to reduce costs for UK operators of satellites, paving the way for cheaper access to space. This will be done in two stages.
New Space Station Crew Members Launch From Kazakhstan
NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa launched to the International Space Station at 3:12 p.m. CDT Tuesday (2:12 a.m. local time, Wednesday) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Newly-released Portraits Show International Space Station Together with the Space Shuttle
Newly-released portraits show the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex during the last decade. The pictures are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the station from the perspective of...
Expedition 27 Crew And Capsule Land Safely In Kazakhstan
Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineers Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan steppe Monday, wrapping up a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
Final Launch for Space Shuttle Endeavour Set for May 16th
NASA managers have set the liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour for 8:56 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 16. Launch attempts are available through May 26, except for May 21. The STS-134 mission to the International Space Station is the penultimate shuttle flight...
Heaviest Antimatter Created
The antimatter equivalent of helium nuclei has been produced by an international team of physicists working with the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. Two University of California,...
NASA Sets Launch Date For Space Shuttle Endeavour Mission
Space shuttle Commander Mark Kelly and his five crewmates are scheduled to begin a 14-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch at 3:47 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 29, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STS-134 mission...
