News

News Shorts: TRDS-K Launch, Laser Communications, and Dream Chaser’s First Test

By Matteo Emanuelli on February 1, 2013

Altas 5 blasts off from Cape Canaveral carrying TDRS-K, on January 30 (Credits: NASA). TRDS-K Launch Successful The new NASA’s Tracking and Data... Read more →

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Columbia And The Day of Remembrance

By Merryl Azriel on February 1, 2013

Patches from the Apollo 1, Challenger STS-51-L, and Columbia STS-107 missions (Credits: NASA). NASA commemorates its fallen each year in the week... Read more →

Space Exploration

The Cost of Exploring Space: Film vs. Reality

By Staff Writers on February 1, 2013

They say that space really is the final frontier and the media (probably even more so than the scientists) love the fact that it's all still so... Read more →

Interplanetary Contamination and Extraterrestrial Life

Can “UFO Sightings” Help ISS?

By Matteo Emanuelli on January 31, 2013

Alleged UFOs near ISS (Credits:danielofdoriaa/Youtube). Unidentified flying objects (UFO) are always tickling the imaginations of many people. Now,... Read more →

News

Third Time Lucky For South Korean Space Launch

By Matteo Emanuelli on January 31, 2013

The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 successfully blasts off from Naro Space Center (Credits: Yonhap). South Korea successfully launched its first... Read more →

Media

Challenger Astronaut’s Brother Recalls Boundary-Breaking Childhood

By Staff Writers on January 30, 2013

 Astronaut Ronald E. McNair died on the Challenger space shuttle 27 years ago this week, a mission specialist on his second spaceflight. McNair's... Read more →