The International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its planned life in the year 2020 may plunge into the Pacific Ocean back on Earth as announced by Deputy Head Vitaly Davydov from the Russian Federal Space Agency to avoid leaving the ISS as space junk in the Earth’s orbit. However other officials from the representing countries of the ISS plan to try keeping the...

NASA announced that Discovery, the space shuttle which was supposed to launch in November 2010, will take off on the 24th of February for its final 11-day mission to the ISS (International Space Station). NASA noted that a few modifications and repairs to the shuttle were made including the reparation of the hydrogen vent system. So far, NASA sees no major problem that...

Robonaut, or Robonaut 2, is scheduled to be shot into orbit encased in a special case called the SLEEPR (Structural Launch Enclosure to Effectively-Protect Robonaut) from the Kennedy Space Center making it the first robotic astronaut to work in space. R2′s destination is the International Space Station where the crew will unpack it and set it to work. Originally...

On Monday, April 5th, 2010; NASA’s space shuttle Discovery launched into orbit from Kennedy Space Center at 6:21 A.M (US Eastern Time) for an orbiter mission to the International Space Station. This successful launch may be one of the last four shuttle launches to supply the International Space Station before the fleet retires this year. Discovery contains a crew...