Medicine & TechnologyDragon cargo ship of SpaceX finally gets attached to the International Space Station. There was a problem in GPS which was responsible for the late delivery. The Dragon was carrying foods and other scientific equipment for the ISS
The support of NASA for the Earth Science discovery is never ending. Soon, the organization will be sending more instruments to the International Space Station to further support the project.
Battery backup is the most vital thing for any space craft's in a lone sky because there are no any easy way to avail any power source in case of failure until a next expensive and time-consuming space mission will conduct
It's that time of the year for Super Bowl and everyone's hyped even the astronauts from space! Just like any football fan, two International Space Station astronauts showed their support for Super Bowl and even picked their bets.
The historic news that the zinnia flower aboard the International Space Station has bloomed, according to US astronaut Scott Kelly via his official Twitter account. Kelly posted a photo of an orange flower with 13 petals.
During a risky spacewalk, two astronauts successfully dodged over specks of highly toxic ammonia last Friday to repair the cooling system at the International Space Station.
Since the retirement of the shuttle program, the restoration of launching American astronauts to the International Space Station from American soil by 2017 has been a goal of NASA. Now, that goal has taken a giant leap forward as NASA has ordered its first commercial spaceflight mission from Boeing.
SpaceX is one step closer to being the first privately-owned company to send astronauts to space. And one of the most important aspects of any mission is protecting the lives of the crew. So they recently tested an abort system that would propel astronauts to safety in the event of an emergency. And a point-of-view camera let us come along for the ride.
SpaceX confirmed yesterday that their Dragon capsule successfully departed the International Space Station and successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean both on time and on target.
NASA and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, known as America Makes, are hoping that additive construction innovators will design a deep space exploration habitat and then fabricate it in a new competition worth US $1.1 million for each of two winners. Phase One registration opened at the Bay Area Maker Faire on Saturday, and the second stage begins September 27.
Fans of shoot-em-up sci fi everywhere will be thrilled with the latest proposal for freeing the International Space Station (ISS) from the need to repeatedly alter its trajectory to avoid crashing into space junk. Researchers from the Riken Computational Astrophysics Laboratory of Japan want to use a laser system to zap dangerous space debris on a collision course with the ISS.
The problems for Russia's space agency seem to continue. The Russian Space Agency said that after a failed first attempt to start the engines of the Progress spacecraft on the International Space Station, they managed to get them started on the second attempt to correct the orbit of the ISS.