May 21, 2013

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon Commercial Craft Launches from Florida

SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon Commercial Craft Launches from Florida

According to CNN International, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida Wednesday morning, marking what could be a significant step toward commercial space travel. A private company has launched a spacecraft in a bold demonstration test for NASA. The Space Exploration Technologies rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning. The Falcon 9 is [...]

Discovery Shuttle Launch Halts Due to Fuel Leak

A potentially dangerous hydrogen fuel leak on the space shuttle Discovery thwarted NASA efforts to launch the spacecraft today, delaying the shuttle’s final liftoff to no earlier than Monday, Nov. 8. Discovery was slated to launch  at 3:04 p.m. EDT (1904 GMT) today (Nov. 5) but a leak of flammable liquid hydrogen discovered during fueling [...]

NASA Delayed “Discovery Space Shuttle” Launch to Friday Due to Bad Weather

Discovery Space Shuttle in Rain

NASA delayed Thursday’s scheduled launch of space shuttle Discovery due to rain showers and low clouds expected at launch time. NASA says Discovery is now scheduled to take off (1903 UTC) Friday afternoon.  Mission managers will meet early Friday to re-evaluate the weather conditions at the site of the launch, Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA’s [...]

Atlantis Space Shuttle : NASA Yet to Confirm its Launch in June 2011

Atlantis Space Shuttle Launch

Now NASA has only two space shuttle missions planned before it retires its aging orbiter fleet, but US President Barack Obama and Congress recently approved an additional spaceflight by Atlantis. Whether that will actually happen has not been decided yet. Less than two weeks before the space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch on its [...]