Update: Soyuz TMA-21 Lost Radio Contact Upon Reentry
According to Associated Press, the Russian Soyuz capsule TMA-21, which landed on Friday September 16 in Kazakhstan carrying two cosmonauts and... Read more →
Virgin Galactic: First Space Launch in 2012
Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic founder and chairman, hopes to perform the first space launch within the next 12 months. "The mother ship... Read more →
UARS Reentry Expected by September 23
The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) during deployment from Space Shuttle Discovery in September 1991 (Credits: NASA Marshall Space Flight... Read more →
Soyuz TMA-21 Landing: Pictures and Video
NASA photographer Bill Ingalls took an extraordinary picture of Soyuz TMA-21 gliding to Earth in its parachute with an almost-full-moon in... Read more →
Columbia Tank Found on Lakebed
A tank from Shuttle Columbia (Source: NASA). An aluminum tank from Space Shuttle Columbia has been found in Lake Nacogdoches, Texas in August... Read more →
Lessons Learned: Mir Collision
The Spektr module of the Mir spacestation. Notice the broken solar panel (Source: NASA). On June 25, 1997, the Progress M-34 spacecraft crashed... Read more →