Spaceflyers Safely Land, Despite Worrisome Descent (21.10.07)
Despite making an off-target landing, three of the International Space Station's (ISS) latest visitors have safely returned to Earth today, making room aboard the orbital laboratory for NASA's soon-to-launch space shuttle crew...read more
LETHAL WMD BLAST (19.09.07)
Dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian soldiers were killed in an explosion while conducting a top-secret experiment - providing new evidence that the two countries are working together to develop weapons of mass destruction, it was reported yesterday...read more(1) read more (2)
NASA Engineers Ponder Temporary ISS Power Loss (12.02.07)
NASA engineers are pondering the source of a day-long power loss aboard the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday that temporarily shut down science and communications equipment...read more
Super Sunday: ISS Spacewalkers Complete Cooling System Overhaul (04.02.07)
Two NASA astronauts successfully upgraded the International Space Station’s (ISS) cooling system Sunday during the second in a series of landmark spacewalks outside the orbital laboratory. ISS Expedition 14 commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and flight engineer Sunita Williams pushed through more than seven hours orbital work...read more
Sea Launch rocket blows up during satellite launch in Pacific (30.01.07)
A Sea Launch Co. rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite blew up during its launch from an oceangoing platform in the equatorial Pacific. The Boeing-built NSS-8 satellite was intended for Netherlands-based SES New Skies. The Zenit-3SL launch rocket was Ukrainian-built and the engines are Russian-made...read more