Articles tagged "shuttle"

Anybody want to throw down on NASA's old shuttle factory? Seriously, it's for sale.

Obama's reelection will keep NASA on track, but it's still too soon to get excited.

Hanging out with rockstars and hangers-on at Atlantis's last ride.

The best photos of Endeavour's last ride.

On September 12, 1966, Gemini 11 launched and set a record for highest Earth orbital mission.

No royal wedding, please, we're space fans.

January, 1987. I stood alone 167 feet above the launch pad’s surface. I was staring into the open, small, white room. At the other end was an open doorway and beyond it was the blue expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. Between me and that 167 foot drop, th…

Before the astronauts of Space Shuttle Atlantis get suited up to go to space one last time this week, they'll repeat a ritual familiar to every crew before them: kissing their spouses goodbye in private. To do that, they go to the beach house. _A

Earlier this morning, Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down at Cape Canaveral, marking the final death knell of America's Space Shuttle Program and 30 years of shooting human beings into outer space. Almost 40 years ago we finished the last chapter in

_The 3D Space Shuttle Discovery simulator is addictive as hell. I just wish the windows weren't blocked and that I could get into that little compartment. Come on!_ h3. ONE: Nanowire Laser Could boost data storage and probe biological cells ("Phys…

Reid Gower, the space nerd who's been promoting NASA through YouTube, has a new entry in his "Sagan Series":http://saganseries.com/ about the end of the manned space era. It's only been a couple of hours since the final shuttle launch, but if your go…