The Space Shuttle Passes The Sun

Pictured is the space shuttle Atlantis rotating into its docking position with the International Space Station. The photo was taken from Spain as the spacecraft passes the sun. The photographer only had .53 seconds to capture this image. [] ...

May 20, 2024

Honey... I Think The Space Shuttle Wants To Pass

Taken by a NASA employee after a Shuttle landing as it's being transported to the hangar bay. [] ...

May 20, 2024

Atlantis Hits It One Last Time

An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle patrols Florida airspace during the final launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in May. Adios, shuttle program — we're gonna miss ya. [ via ] ...

May 20, 2024

Japan Unfurls World's First Functional Solar Sail

Japan's launched the first functional aboard the satellite Ikaros. The 2,100-sq-ft sail uses reflected solar photons to provide minute, but constant and fuel-free propulsion. Scientists and engineers will now test the system's control and thrust capabilities. [] ...

May 20, 2024

The Rocket-Car Man Who Helped Put Us On The Moon

He drove his rocket car 150 mph in the 1920s. He founded the rocketeering society whose members put America on the Moon. He died a rocketeer’s death. His name was Max Valier. This is his story. Valier was born in 1895 in the southwestern reaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in...

May 20, 2024

The Nazi Rocket Plane to Nuke New York From Orbit

V-2’s falling on London were just the beginning. Had the Nazis had their way, Mach 22 bombers would have devastated America from space. The scary thing? The concept was not entirely insane. This is the story of Eugen Sänger’s Silbervogel. Nazi Germany may have lost the war but certainly not...

May 20, 2024

UFO Spotted Over China?

Chinese authorities spotted a UFO on July 7th. A ? A new Chinese missile test? A secret U.S. bomber? Or perhaps just ? You decide. Video below. ...

May 20, 2024

UFO Spotted Over China... Again!

Chinese witnesses claim they've spotted the same UFO we told you for a second time. Now it's hovering over Chonqing's Shaping park for more than an hour. Spooky. [via ] Chinese authorities spotted a UFO over an airport in Hangzhou, China on July 7th. A Russian… ...

May 20, 2024

Buy NASA's Human Training Centrifuge And Pretend You're An Astronaut

NASA's Human Training Centrifuge — an awesome piece of the space race history — was for sale on eBay and nobody bid. For just $12 million, you could've had the largest human centrifuge ever built and trained like an astronaut. The Johnsville Centrifuge lives inside the Naval Air Development Center...

May 20, 2024

How To Drive On Mars

In "," author Mary Roach details the strange science of putting humans in space. In this exclusive excerpt she details how we're practicing for driving on Mars in a remote and barren wasteland here on Earth. — Ed. Once upon a time, astronauts tooled around the moon in an open...

May 20, 2024

World's Largest Amateur Space Rocket Set To Launch

Next Monday, a small group of crazy Danish geniuses their into space, after towing it to the launch site via their homebuilt submarine. Who needs NASA? The non-profit firm known as Copenhagen Suborbital left port with the Heat1X-TychoBrae rocket on Friday, towing the rocket and its launching pad to a...

May 20, 2024

Get Your Vintage NASA On at The Flickr Commons

NASA a wealth of great photos to Flickr, including all manner of planes, spaceship, men, and, curiously, cows. is a man, research pilot , after testing the HL-10 lifting body in 1969. are a bunch of cows which used to live on a patch of Houston land before it was...

May 20, 2024

Hurricane Earl As Seen From The Space Station

The astronauts in the International Space Station have the best (and safest) view of as its 125 mph winds spin toward the Outer Banks of North Carolina and onward to New England. Photo Credit: NASA/Douglas Wheelock ...

May 20, 2024

For Sale: One Space Shuttle, 120 Million Miles

Clever Craigslist tribute or a cunning diss of NASA policy? . ...

May 20, 2024

Fly To The Edge Of Space In A Russian Fighter Jet

Climbing 65,000 feet into the stratosphere in a MiG-31 usually involves enlisting in the Russian Air Force, but leave it to the Russians to give you the supersonic jet fighter experience at a value price of just $25,000. The program's called the "Edge Of Space" and offers a trip to...

May 20, 2024