New York: In a city understandably wary of low-flying aircraft, New Yorkers and tourists alike watched with joy and excitement on Friday as space shuttle Enterprise sailed over the skyline on its final flight before it becomes a museum piece. Ten years after 9/11, people gathered on rooftops and the banks of the Hudson River to marvel at the sight of the spacecraft riding piggyback on a modified jumbo jet...
04:01 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Chantilly: Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital on Tuesday before landing for the last time near its new museum home. The world's most travelled spaceship took off at daybreak from Cape Canaveral, Florida, bolted to the top of a modified jumbo jet for the trip. Three hours later, the pair took a few spins around Washington at...
11:06 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Cape Canaveral: US space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday to deliver a last batch of supplies to the orbiting outpost on the final flight of the US shuttle program. Commander Chris Ferguson gently eased Atlantis into its parking slip on the station's Harmony node at 11:07 am EDT (1507 GMT) as the spacecraft soared 230 miles (370 km) over the Pacific Ocean. "Welcome to the...
07:32 AM, Jul 11, 2011
Cape Canaveral: The space shuttle Atlantis hasn't performed like a ship ready for retirement. The first full day of the final flight of the aging space shuttle fleet - the most complicated machines ever built - was practically flawless. NASA officials say the unusually small four-person crew of Atlantis worked through lunch on Saturday and finished their tasks in near-record time. After Friday's launch they inspected the shuttle's heat shield...
08:04 AM, Jul 10, 2011
New Delhi: The United State's Space Shuttle programme ended on Friday with the launch of the last shuttle Atlantis. Atlantis will return to Earth two weeks later, to be mothballed forever. The 12-day mission will be run by a 4-person crew. This is the smallest crew of any shuttle mission since the 6th shuttle flight that began on April 4, 1983. Atlantis is carrying 15,000 pounds of clothing, food and...
09:00 PM, Jul 08, 2011
New Delhi: Thirty years and 134 missions later, the United State's Space Shuttle programme is being shut down. Atlantis is the last shuttle to go to space. After launch late on Friday night, it will return to Earth two weeks later, to be mothballed forever. US President Barack Obama has shut down the Space Shuttle programme, leaving 30,000 workers jobless. Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator said, "We are not ending human...
08:39 PM, Jul 08, 2011
Miami: When the United States embarked on its shuttle program decades ago, it set out to build a workhorse vehicle that would make space travel routine and beat the Soviets during the Cold War struggle for dominance in space. The resulting spaceship had 2.5 million parts and was nine times faster than a speeding bullet as it climbed heavenward. It was the first reusable spacecraft, capable of gliding back to...
09:18 AM, Jul 01, 2011
Cape Canaveral: Endeavour and its crew of six left the International Space Station and headed home to close out NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, pausing just long enough Monday to perform a victory lap and test equipment for a future interplanetary ship. "Endeavour looks real nice out there," space station resident Ronald Garan Jr called out. The space station crew beamed down video of the departing shuttle, the last ever shot...
04:54 PM, May 30, 2011
West Palm Beach: Groggy from a late night watching the Yankees, frigid from a chilled airplane cabin, Stefanie Gordon stirred to action after the pilot's announcement. Lifting her iPhone to the plane's window, she captured an otherworldly image that rocketed around the globe as fast as her subject: Space shuttle Endeavour soaring from a bank of clouds, its towering plume of white smoke lighting the azure sky. She had never...
06:03 PM, May 18, 2011
Cape Canaveral: Endeavour blasted off on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit Monday morning as the mission commander's wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched along with an exhilarated crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands. "Good stuff, good stuff," Giffords was quoted as saying by her chief of staff as Endeavour took flight for the final time. Husband Mark Kelly, the shuttle's skipper, had red tulips presented to...
10:46 PM, May 16, 2011
Cape Canaveral (Florida): The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday on its final voyage which will deliver a pioneering physics experiment to the International Space Station. Endeavour roared off the launch pad at 8:56 am EDT, carrying a six-member crew. The US space agency NASA plans just one more shuttle mission this summer with sister ship Atlantis before ending the 30-year-old shuttle programme....
06:35 PM, May 16, 2011
Cape Canaveral: Space shuttle Endeavour's final launch is off until at least the end of the week because technicians need to replace a switch box in the engine compartment, NASA said on Sunday. The six astronauts - led by commander Mark Kelly - wasted no time heading back to Houston. Kelly's wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, did not join the astronauts in flying back. The timing of her return to Houston,...
08:12 PM, May 01, 2011
Cape Canaveral: The space shuttle Discovery capped a successful 13-day spaceflight with a smooth landing in Florida on Wednesday, ending a 27-year flying career for NASA's most-traveled spaceship as the agency prepares for an uncertain future. With commander Steven Lindsey at the controls, Discovery touched down at 11:57 am EST (1657 GMT) to wrap a cargo run and construction mission at the International Space Station. Discovery accumulated 365 days in...
11:28 PM, Mar 09, 2011
Washington: US space shuttle Discovery has lifted off on its own final scheduled flight from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to deliver a storage room to the International Space Station (ISS). According to NASA TV, the shuttle blasted off at 4:53 pm. (2153 GMT) on Thursday. "Good to be here", Discovery Commander Steve Lindsey radioed soon after the three main engines shut off and the external fuel tank was...
07:03 AM, Feb 25, 2011
Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday. ...
10:50 AM, Nov 19, 2009
People in USA started calling local TV channels reporting strange lights in sky. ...
10:02 AM, Sep 20, 2009
Thunderstorms, valve disorder have cancelled the earlier launch attempt. ...
11:46 AM, Aug 28, 2009
