Tag Archives: international space station

The TRV's specific purpose is speedy shipping back and forth between Terra Firma and Terra Sky-a.

Twenty minutes after launch, the ISS Progress 44 disappeared, along with its 3 tons of supplies for the International Space Station.

In a slightly melancholic news announcement, NASA has released more details about their last space shuttle mission, which is scheduled to begin this July.

With all the hoopla over the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it kind of went unnoticed that in completing their mission, Discovery installed the final section of the International Space Station.

In the space tourism era, with CEOs spending millions to be hoisted into the heavens, he was the first true empty suit in space.

It's getting pretty plush up there. Yesterday, NASA released this image of Expedition 25 commander Doug Wheelock in the "cupola," a bay window installed on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station in February 2010.

Shot on August 30th from the International Space Station, NASA released this photo which shows Hurricane Earl as a category 4 storm from the perspective of space. The photo was snapped by NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock with a DSLR camera. With maximum sustained winds of 135 miles, it’s unique views like this, rather than weather radar animations, that really puts ...

For those of you who don’t want to or mentally can’t do the math, 17,239 MPH is about 4.7 miles per second. So it takes about two seconds for the Earth to circle around yo momma’s ass. NASA astronaut Don Petit captured this time lapse video from the International Space Station. At one point you can actually see the northern ...

The BBC’s new Dimensions website uses the size of important places and events in modern and ancient history as well as science, and superimposes the dimensions over any location on planet Earth. Doing so provides some perspective on events and places that most of us (or all of us in some cases) will never get to see first-hand, much like ...

NASA has announced that they plan to launch their R2 Robonaut into orbit in September, making it the first robo-humanoid resident of the International Space Station. Before launch, the robot/slayer of the human race will be thoroughly tested in conditions ranging from vacuum, low gravity and high radiation. Sure, he might be displaying amazingly good will for now. Just don’t ...