Today’s launch window for STS-121 and Space Shuttle Discovery is from 2:21 PM to 2:31 PM CDT.

Today’s launch window for STS-121 and Space Shuttle Discovery is from 2:43 PM to 2:53 PM CDT.

On September 11 of last year, a massive solar flare ejected a stream of charged particles towards the Earth. NASA’s IMAGE satellite captured some amazing video of the Aurora Australis - the Southern Lights - when the stream of ions reached our upper atmosphere. This must have been awesome to witness from below.

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Here’s the fascinating story of a strange oblong object in Earth orbit, and the research into its origin. It turns out the object is probably an Apollo-era booster that was put into the wrong orbit, and has actually shifted between orbiting the Earth and orbiting the Sun over the past three decades: Mystery Object Orbits […]

The Mars Reconaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft intended to study Mars in great detail from low orbit, launched today from the Kennedy Space Center.

CNN is reporting that James Doohan’s ashes will be launched into orbit by Space Services Inc., a company here in the Houston area that specializes in “space memorials”. Doohan’s ashes (well, not all of them, just one gram) will join those of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who died in 1991 and was launched into […]

Today’s shuttle launch was scrubbed because of a malfunctioning sensor on the External Tank. The earliest possible next launch attempt is Saturday.

Lots of fingers are crossed in Texas, Florida, Alabama, and around the nation today as we attempt, weather permitting, to get the shuttle back in the air and into orbit. In about three hours, if the storms around Kennedy Space Center have cleared off, and the weather is also good at the TAL site, we’ll […]