Tag Archives : International Space Station

Come Friday, July 8th, 2011, the world will witness the glorious end to a three decade long and highly successful U.S  space shuttle program, as Shuttle Atlantis will mark the final flight with a cargo of four astronauts heading for the International Space Station (ISS). Under the auspices of the world’s most advanced space agency, NASA, the U.S [...]

Come July 8th, 2011, the long standing and highly successful NASA shuttle program will finally meet its end as Shuttle Atlantis will ferry the last four U.S astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). This historic event will eventually result in establishing the domination of the Russian Federation in the so called ‘Space Race’ that [...]

The year 2010 was one of the most thrilling and eventful time for nearly all technology aficionados as well as online tech blogs. With the launch of Apple iPhone 4G and iPad, the previous year offered a wealth of options for consumers to consolidate their lifestyles with mobile technology, while connecting to rest of the world in a more advanced and [...]

The world of space tourism as seen from the Russian perspective has been quite a lucrative prospecting for the country’s economy. However, one of the premier space tourism companies in Russia, Space Adventures, had to halt its space tourist services last year, as the International Space Station (ISS) was packed full to capacity. Now, Space Adventures [...]

NASA has postponed next week’s mid-December for the launch of space shuttle Discovery, which will carry cargo and supplies to the International Space Station, officials said yesterday. The extra time will allow engineers to understand why two metal fuel tank split when the shuttle was being fueled with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in early [...]

One of the world’s most cherished and preferred alcoholic beverage is now all set to venture to a place where no liquor has gone before, in the cold deep space. A non profit space research corporation,  Astronauts4Hire, is slated to run tests on an all new Australian beer, that has been specifically engineered for microgravity environments and can [...]

NASA’s space shuttle, Atlantis has made a successful touchdown at the space port in Florida after completing its mission of delivering a cargo to the international space station and the mission duration was 11 days. The Atlantis flight has been especially of great significance as it was deemed as the final space shuttle flight from NASA, before [...]

NASA is pretty renowned for screw ups that only it can manage to pull off and after re-recording on the moon landing tapes its reputation has been on a one way trip down the spiral. With the International Space Station (ISS) in eternal need of repairs and pare parts and the space shuttles at NASA’s disposal only operation for another year or so, [...]

Japan has successfully tested the state of the art unmanned H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), that has been developed to supply essential items to the International Space Station (ISS). The test was completed when the autonomous vehicle re-entered earth’s atmosphere heating the vehicle surface at 2000 degrees centigrade. The H-II Transfer Vehicle is [...]

The Ares I-X prototype rocket, that is considered to be one of the biggest accomplishments of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) finally took off from the Kennedy Space Center launch pad after multiple weather delays. The Ares I-X rocket is expected to be the much awaited replacement for NASA’s space shuttle program and with [...]