Tag Archives : space shuttles

The hottest destinations are no longer Paris, Rome and Venice. Oh no, this time you can’t even guess it. It’s the moon! Yelken Octuri works as a designer of interiors for Airbus. His hobby is to create imaginary airplanes that the rest of us can’t even imagine. His latest creation is a honeymoon suite in a space shuttle for those very enthusiastic [...]

Apparently the only motive in Sir Richard Branson’s life is to take people for a ride, well literally! This millionaire had earlier introduced private shuttles for people to dive deep into the deep blue sea and explore the unimaginable and now he is all set to commercialize the journeys into the deep blue sky. This trend is catching up and it [...]

The Aviation Systems Division at at NASA Ames Research Center is the home to the world’s biggest and most sophisticated flight simulator, the Vertical Motion Simulator or VMS. Its primary aim is to give the astronauts and the pilots who fly the space shuttles helicopters, Joint Strike Fighters and other high speed aircrafts a taste of what its [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]