Following postponement of the earlier launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery days ago due to local cloudy conditions, the seven member astronaut crew of STS mission 116 blasted off from Kennedy Space Center at 8:47 p.m. EST Saturday night December ...
Cape Cod from Space
This is a photograph with an aerial view of Cape Cod and “the Islands” from 220 miles above the earth. Visible are the entirety of “the Cape” and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard (left) and Nantucket (right), as well as ...
NASA to Keep Ailing Hubble Alive
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced yesterday (10.31.06) that Shuttle astronauts will make one final house-call to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory’s capabilities through the year 2013. This decision was ...
STS-115 Atlantis Mission
Space Shuttle Atlantis – This overhead image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-115 was recorded by a crew member onboard the International Space Station. The cargo bay of the shuttle, which will later be used to resume the construction of ...
The Sea Orbiter
The Sea Orbiter – Designed by the French architect Jaques Rougerie, the vessel, containing various laboratories for studying marine life, will be 51 meters high, two-thirds of which will be submerged underwater. The Sea Orbiter is based on a smaller ...
