Topic: Space Technology
Astronaut Chris Hadfield in 2013 will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station (ISS), the Canadian Space Agency announced Thursday. Hadfield, 51, will rocket on his third trip into space aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in December 2012 and ...
A lesson in survival for Chilean miners from those who came back from Mir, Andes, plane crashAstronaut Jerry Linenger and architect Eduardo Strauch know the remarkable quality that keeps the trapped Chilean miners going: the immense power of hope. Linenger and Strauch ...
Chilean officials worked to launch a gruelling, four-month rescue operation to save 33 trapped miners, while keeping the men in the dark about how long they will have to wait for deliverance. Drilling of an escape tunnel through 700 meters (2,300 feet) ...
Chilean officials worked Tuesday to launch a gruelling, four month rescue operation to save 33 trapped miners, but kept the men in the dark about how long they will have to wait for deliverance. Drilling of an escape tunnel through 700 meters ...
A satellite designed to map Earth's gravitational field has been hit by a software glitch and is unable to send its science data back home, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Monday. The problem began to affect the spacecraft GOCE in ...
SpaceX says drop test of capsule parachute system fully successfulThe California rocketry firm SpaceX says this month's test of a parachute system to land a cargo or crew capsule safely in an ocean was fully successful. The Hawthorne-based company said Friday that ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, proposed on Tuesday legislation that would introduce tax breaks for investments in commercial space ventures to offset job losses from the end of the U.S. space shuttle program. Florida, where ...
China plans to launch 1st module of space station next year after tests, changes to rocketChina has finished the first module of a planned space station and is testing its electronics and other systems before launching it into orbit next year. The ...
Astronauts from the International Space Station on Monday embarked on a third spacewalk to fix the orbiting station's busted cooling system, NASA said. Spacewalkers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson began their work on installing a spare ammonia pump module on the ...
NASA: Crew working to fix cooling system that malfunctioned aboard international space stationSeveral power systems have been shut down aboard the International Space Station after a cooling system malfunctioned. NASA says in a posting on its website that one of two cooling ...
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