Astronomy
- Shuttle Endeavour Finally Launched
Shuttle Endeavour finally roared to life and blasted off Wednesday on its sixth try, rocketing away through a hazy sky toward a Friday rendezvous with the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center. Multiple pieces of foam insulation fell...
- Shuttle Endeavour Launch On Sunday Postponed
NASA on Sunday postponed the launch of space shuttle Endeavour for the day due storms near Kennedy Space Center. NASA will next try to launch the shuttle on Monday at 6:51 p.m. Endeavour's launch was postponed twice last month because of a liquid...
- Shuttle Endeavour Cleared For Launch Next Week
While the shuttle Endeavour's crew reviewed emergency procedures at the launch pad June 3 , NASA managers held an executive-level flight readiness review and cleared the ship for blastoff June 13, at 7:17:15 a.m., on a complex space station assembly...
- Shuttle Atlantis Blasting From Nasa
When the space shuttle Atlantis blasts off on NASA's final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, the shuttle Endeavour and a four-man crew will be standing by for launch on a mission space agency managers hope will never be needed: an emergency...
- Sts-128 Launch
Update 4: NASA has decided to attempt launching at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, August 28. This is to allow more time for the engineers to analyze the problem that had occurred. Update 3: During the 48 hour scrub, NASA will try to analyze the problem....
Astronomy
Space shuttle Endeavour launch postponed by leak
Launch of the shuttle Endeavour, grounded by a gaseous hydrogen leak during fueling Saturday, is off until Wednesday at the earliest, NASA officials say. But because of the already planned launch of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite Wednesday, the shuttle team could be delayed to June 20, the last day this month Endeavour can be launched.
- Shuttle Endeavour Finally Launched
Shuttle Endeavour finally roared to life and blasted off Wednesday on its sixth try, rocketing away through a hazy sky toward a Friday rendezvous with the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center. Multiple pieces of foam insulation fell...
- Shuttle Endeavour Launch On Sunday Postponed
NASA on Sunday postponed the launch of space shuttle Endeavour for the day due storms near Kennedy Space Center. NASA will next try to launch the shuttle on Monday at 6:51 p.m. Endeavour's launch was postponed twice last month because of a liquid...
- Shuttle Endeavour Cleared For Launch Next Week
While the shuttle Endeavour's crew reviewed emergency procedures at the launch pad June 3 , NASA managers held an executive-level flight readiness review and cleared the ship for blastoff June 13, at 7:17:15 a.m., on a complex space station assembly...
- Shuttle Atlantis Blasting From Nasa
When the space shuttle Atlantis blasts off on NASA's final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, the shuttle Endeavour and a four-man crew will be standing by for launch on a mission space agency managers hope will never be needed: an emergency...
- Sts-128 Launch
Update 4: NASA has decided to attempt launching at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, August 28. This is to allow more time for the engineers to analyze the problem that had occurred. Update 3: During the 48 hour scrub, NASA will try to analyze the problem....