American shuttle Discovery astronauts Clayton Anderson and Richard Mastracchio successfully completed the second spacewalk out of three planned spacewalks, transmits radio “Mayak”.
According to NASA, astronauts on the ISS replaced the old tank of liquid ammonia, used to cool the space station, the new one. During the next exit, astronauts will place the cart with the [...]
Apr
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Discovery astronauts done with the second EVA
Mar
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Cheers to polar ice
A NASA probe on Chandrayan -1 has made the discovery of the millennium and find out the large quantities of ice on moon. This finding rekindles hope of human settlement on moon.The Chandrayan one again is in news because the NASA onboard instrument data is showing evidence of ice deposits near the moon’s north pole.
The [...]
Feb
22
2010
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Endeavor and its crew returned on Earth safely
After a successful mission of 13 days which helped to integrate the ISS a new connecting node to the position and the observation dome, both built by the European industrial Thales Alenia Space, Endeavor and its crew returned on Earth at Kennedy Space Center of NASA. The STS-130 mission just ended with the landing of [...]
Feb
22
2010
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Endeavour returns safely
“Houston, it’s great to be home. It was a great adventure”, space shuttle Endeavour commander George Zamka radioed after completing a rare night time landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida today.
Endeavour’s STS-130 mission, which made a 13-day successful trip to the International Space Station, was carrying six astronauts. It landed at Cape Canaveral at [...]
Feb
21
2010
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Space shuttle Endeavour may have a delayed landing
Endeavour, the NASA space shuttle, that kicked took off with the six member crew is all set to land on earth tonight at 10.16 p.m at the Kennedy Space Center, if the weather condition remain favourable. Otherwise, Endeavour will be diverted to California or may have to spend another day in the orbit. The space [...]
Feb
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2010
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A multi-windowed observation deck has been installed, says NASA
The installation of a multi-windowed observation deck has finished by NASA astronauts what is going to be the best viewing platform ever. The multi-windowed observation deck that will offer Earth views from low Earth orbit. The deck is part of the new Tranquility node and this newly formed deck has been just delivered into orbit [...]
Feb
18
2010
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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 [...]
Feb
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Shuttle Endeavour docking right in the space
Endeavour shuttle approached to the outstation post in the orbit to embrace the welcome of the team hooked up in space to construct the tranquility compartment, 200 miles from earth.
The shuttle landed at midnight in the outstation post. The view from the space station seems marvelous on the edge between earth and space. The team [...]
Feb
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2010
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