Top NASAofficials will decide today whether to proceed with the planned launch of thespace shuttle Discovery next week or to stand down and replace several heatshield panels lining the orbiter's wings. Missionmanagers and engineers are meeting at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in CapeCanaveral...
In the late afternoon shadows, space shuttle Atlantis is still poised on the pad after its launch on mission STS-122 was postponed on Dec. 6, 2007. (Image credit: NASA/George Shelton.) NASAmanagers decided Friday to officially aim for a Feb. 7 launch of the shuttleAtlantis and delay ...
China aims to launch its second crewed flight on 13 October from its Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, according to a report from the independent news agency China News Service. The flight, scheduled to last just under five days, will carry a crew of two “taikonauts”. X...
1957: RUSSIANS LAUNCH FIRST ARTIFICIAL MOON Asif A. Siddiqi // NASA 1957: 'RUSSIANS LAUNCH FIRST ARTIFICIAL MOON' On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union emerged as the most technologically advanced nation in the world when it successfully launched Sputnik 1, the first satellite to orbit the Earth...
BEAVIS & BUTT-HEAD DO THE UNIVERSE, where Beavis and Butt-Head go on a Space Shuttle mission in 1998, fall into a black hole, and reemerge on Earth in 2022, where they are pursued by the NSA, the Governor of Texas, and a highly-intelligent version of themsel...
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The last time Madonna played in Denver,Colorado, was for her MDNA Tour in October 2012. Eleven years later, Madonna is older but has not lost any of the fire and tenacity that has made her a worldwide megastar. There's been a lot of talk about this upcoming tour, andthey have made ...
has already taken around 700 bookings for its suborbital flights, with each one costing $250,000. It hopes to launch its service within the next 12 months. Virgin Galactic said that the growing list of customers means anyone booking a ticket today will more than likely have to wait until at...
first permits to test there and has been steadily up-scaling the tests since launch. It’s reported that Apple is gathering data for autonomous vehicle software rather than its own line of vehicles, but would the company put that many vehicles on the street if it was only working on ...
Gears of War, the first-ever Gears game, takes place 14 years after E-Day. Marcus Fenix has been imprisoned for roughly four years, and the COG forces are trying to assemble a last-ditch offensive to destroy the Locust Horde with a lightmass bomb to be deployed into their tunnels. Marcus...