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Space Shuttle Discovery Makes Final Landing, Heads To Museum

Rue Liu, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

Space shuttle Discovery made its final landing today at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Completing its 39th and final flight, the Discovery now retires as Nasa's oldest and most flown space shuttle. It was a bittersweet touchdown as everyone witnessed this history in the making. Read The Full Story

Space Shuttle launched yesterday with experiment to boil water in zero-gravity onboard

Shane McGlaun, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [1]

Scientists have been hard at work trying to find safe and easy ways to do things in no gravity in space that are taken for granted here on Earth. One of the things that has been studied is how to boil water safely while in orbit. The space shuttle lifted off yesterday and one of the experiments on board was a system that allows the boiling of water in no gravity. Read The Full Story

PlayStation Home users can watch space shuttle Discovery launch on Sunset Yacht

Shane McGlaun, Feb 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you have never watched a space shuttle lift off on TV before, the chances for you to do so are at an end. The space shuttle Discovery is set to lift off today on one of the final missions of the shuttle fleet headed to the ISS. If you want to watch the lift off, you can fire up your PS3. Read The Full Story

NASA finds more cracks in Discovery fuel tanks, launch still on track

Shane McGlaun, Dec 31st 2010 Discuss [0]

The space shuttle Discovery sits at Kennedy Space Center waiting for repairs to be made to its fuel tanks after a crack in the foam insulation around the tank was discovered and a subsequent investigation found cracks in some support structures on the fuel tank. A piece of foam falling from the tank is what contributed to the fatal accident when the Columbia broke up while reentering the atmosphere in 2003 killing all seven astronauts onboard the spacecraft. Read The Full Story