Follow news about NASA and the Shuttle Endeavour. The shuttle and its STS-118 astronaut crew are slated to launch Aug. 7 on a construction mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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The US space shuttle Endeavour has lifted off without a hitch, heading towards the International Space Station (ISS).
The shuttle is carrying the first section of a Japanese space lab.
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For many, the Discovery space shuttle which left the International Space Station this morning at 5:30 AM, heading back toward Earth with its astronaut crewmembers is something familiar and commonplace, while to others the name is ummm…. faintly familiar, but that is about it. So a quick look back in time is offered here for those who want to know how the shuttle program itself “grew up” before the shuttles’ final retirements right around the corner when the International Space Station is... Read Full Story
“It looks like we have a very good vehicle on the pad,” said NASA’s launch integration manager LeRoy Cain. “The crew is ready. The team is ready.”
For most of us, high heat temperatures and heat warnings are not good news. But for those involved with the launching of NASA’s 20th STS-118 mission of the Endeavour, it is wonderful during a time when nasty weather consisting of lightening and thunderstorms have prevented not only launchings of spacecraft but also landings. An 80% favorable... Read Full Story
Like the ship from which it was named in the 1700s, the Endeavour has proved insurmountable against all odds. With only three years left to complete 11 space station missions before its retirement, the object is to spend as little and get as much freight delivered to the ISS as possible but not at the expense of lives. Avoiding danger to the astronauts has always been a top NASA priority, with the statistics of losing one about one out of every 100. Already astronaut Rick Mastracchio had to... Read Full Story
“It’s really important that we keep our options open as long as it’s practical,” said Matt Abbott, NASA’s lead shuttle flight director, in an afternoon briefing. “We’ve been watching this storm kind of brewing for a couple of days and everyone has been aware that it’s developing … we need to be prepared to respond.” (Yahoo News, Friday, August. 17, 2007).
With a tentative landing planned for Wednesday of August 22, 2007, Hurricane Dean may have some other plans for the shuttle Endeavour... Read Full Story
The Kennedy Space Station set the scene today at 12:32 p.m., finalizing the Endeavour’s mission to the International Space Station. Undocking Sunday, which ended a nine-day-stay, the shuttle arrived one day early due to Hurricane Dean, it touched down two weeks after its original launching from the Florida space port for its ISS destination for several joint operations with the crew of the Expedition 15.
Regardless of the damage done to the shuttle’s underbelly or being forced to arrive... Read Full Story
“The opportunity to investigate and understand the effects of spaceflight on the pathogenic potential of S. pneumoniae may further the design and development of new drugs that can be used for treatment of diseases on Earth,” said Hami Teal, the experiment’s project scientist and a researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Prior to the year 2000, the recognized “S. pneumoniae” infections have been the cause of approximately 60,000 annual cases of this very hardy... Read Full Story
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Flashing a big smile, teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan climbed aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on Wednesday for liftoff on a mission she hopes will realize the unfulfilled dreams of her predecessor, Christa McAuliffe. Read more Read Full Story
