CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Space shuttle Discovery rolled out from its hangar for the last time early Thursday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, beginning the first leg of its final mission into space. The winged orbiter, the oldest of NASA's space
NASA has a "critical responsibility" to the flying public to develop environmentally responsible solutions to the nation's most pressing aviation problems, Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. said Wednesday. Addressing the Green Aviation Summit under way
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Astrium announced a commercial agreement to provide dedicated launch services to the European institutional small satellite market. Under the agreement, Astrium intends to work with SpaceX to market Falcon 1
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This remarkable image shows a ferocious solar flare as it loops out from the surface of the Sun. The ring of fire, heated to tens of millions of degrees, stretches out tens of thousands of miles. The pictures were taken yesterday by the Solar Dynamics
A couple of years ago I sailed to the Galapagos Islands with a boat full of skeptics. We toured the islands by day, of course, but at night we also took a gander at the Equatorial skies, in which we could objects (like Alpha Centauri) you can’t see
Two asteroids that swooped past Earth Wednesday may have caught the attention of the public, but events like these are not actually rare, NASA scientists say. 'This is the first time we've seen (two) combined within a 24-hour period, but that's probably
It looks too perfect to be real — a massive grey spiral floating in space like a ghostly lens flare. The whirling shape, which was photographed in the Winged Horse constellation by the Hubble Space Telescope, has left astronomers astonished and puzzled
APNews Share Sign-Up The unprecedented turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down. A total of 278 sea turtle nests were trucked to the space center from the Gulf Coast from the end of June until mid-August. Wildlife officials
Undergraduates train with professionals in Colorado for at least 3 years to become satellite control certified. BEFORE THE CRASH: Artist's concept of ICESat. (Photo: NASA) When a NASA satellite met its doom in a fiery blaze in Earth's atmosphere after a
Six volunteers simulate mission to Mars for 520 days. GETTING ALONG: Life in isolation during the Mars500 simulation. From left: Aleksandr Smoleevsky, Romain Charles and Wang Yue. (Photo: ESA) When it comes to flying in space, the makeup of an astronaut
The asteroids will zip past the planet on Wednesday and should be visible through a telescope. SIGHT TO SEE: The asteroids were discovered Sunday by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. The Minor Planet Center determined there was no chance of
A German aerospace contractor and a Chinese research agency have signed a deal to jointly develop a satellite fleet to monitor greenhouse gases contributing to climate change, officials announced Wednesday. Artist's concept of the CarbonSat
