Oaida Raul, a teenager in Romania, said he has always been inspired by spaceflight, but the only space program he cold afford was a LEGO shuttle. He decided to undertake an "October Sky" project of his own, which involved a high-altitude balloon lifting a LEGO space shuttle and a GoPro camera to ca...
When Endeavour launches, it will deliver three of prototype microchip mini-satellites to the space station for testing.
It's been a good long while since the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-air a few minutes after launch on January 28, 1986, killing all the astronauts (and one schoolteacher) aboard. Now some new homemade footage of the crash has surfaced, taken by a man named Jack Moss as he watched the shu...
Depressurization and smoke alarms woke the shuttle and station crews for a second consecutive night on Friday. Flight controllers quickly determined they were false alarms, but the station's ventilation system automatically shut down, prompting NASA to cancel spacewalk preparations inside a low-pre...
The simmering debate over the future direction of our nation's human space flight program hit even more air turbulence over the past couple weeks. On the cusp of the Augustine Report on NASA's future space flight plans (that was delivered to the White House last month to await a presidential decisi...
Amateur astronomers have glimpsed beneath a cloak of secrecy shrouding the military's miniature robotic space shuttle, which was launched last month on a trial run.
Space Shuttle Discovery will do a rare flyover of a large swathe of North America on Monday morning. But don't underestimate the double-sonic boom the shuttle will make during the flyover, it might wake you up.
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