The US investment in the Apollo space programme paid off handsomely, unlike the -billion plowed into the International Space Station.
In the scale of things, it’s not as bad as a malfunctioning computer trying to seize control of your spaceship or having a lethal alien on board.
Visiting shuttle Discovery astronauts on Friday unfurled the new solar panel wings they installed onto the International Space Station.
The US late on Friday launched a space telescope whose three-year mission is to find Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
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/ 20 February 2009
The US space agency’s Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest gamma-ray burst to date.
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/ 26 November 2008
Astronauts at the International Space Station have fixed a faulty urine-processor unit at the International Space Station, Nasa said onTuesday.
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/ 25 October 2008
To astronauts, it will sound uncannily like Hal, the soft-voiced computer that turns nasty in Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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/ 25 September 2008
In 50 years, Nasa has earned an unparalleled reputation as an engineering, technological and scientific pioneer by pushing science to the limit.
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/ 4 September 2008
Nasa has confirmed that a computer virus sneaked aboard the International Space Station, only to be tossed into quarantine by security software.
One might think Michael Griffin has much to celebrate. His agency, Nasa, receives -billion a year and is buoyed up by strong public support.
Astronauts opened up Japan’s new billion-dollar space-station lab on Thursday, then got ready for another spacewalk.