The shuttle that was to arrive at Kennedy’s space centre on early (7:33 EDT) Monday via parts of Pacific Ocean and North America will have try for a landing for the second time as its first landing was marred by bad weather. Both landing opportunities were lost on Monday to the weather.
Rain and clouds over [...]
Apr
19
2010
19
2010
Bad weather plays spoilsport for Discovery’s landing
Apr
18
2010
18
2010
Discovery left space station to come back to Earth
Space shuttle ‘Discovery’ has left space station on Saturday after completing its ten day mission. It will landed on earth after two days. Landing is scheduled for Monday morning as per NASA schedule.
The shuttle will touch earth’s atmosphere at 7:43 a.m. New York time on Monday and will land at ‘Kennedy Space Center’, Florida at [...]
Feb
23
2010
23
2010
“Houston, Endeavour, wheels stopped”
“Houston, Endeavour, wheels stopped”, this was the message radioed to mission control after Shuttle’s Mission ended smoothly late Sunday. The shuttle Endeavour arrived at Kennedy Space Centre successfully leaving International Space Station behind in orbit.
The Space Station has a life support module and a bay window observation deck attached to it. [...]
Feb
22
2010
22
2010
Shuttle’s, safe landing
The space shuttle Endeavour reached home a little late, yesterday facing the partly cloudy night sky with a smooth landing, leaving the space with a sigh of relief that all is done and set out there in the International Space Station behind in orbit, equipped with a bay window observation deck.
Covering the journey of 5000 [...]
Feb
18
2010
18
2010
Astronauts opening the new window
NASA astronauts, has just finished up with the work of installing the deck in the international space station which looks like a room with many windows, giving the unanimous view of earth making it a best platform to view the earth from its lower orbit.
The deck is the part of the Tranquillity node that [...]