Overcast skies didn’t deter the "Mighty Eagle," flying high above the historic F-1 test stand – formerly used to test turbopumps for Saturn first stage engines. Completing this round of flight test objectives, the "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, flew to an altitude of 100 feet and descended gently to a controlled landing [...]
The space shuttle Endeavour and the STS-126 crew landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California after completing a mission to the International Space Station. 20081130_0085a4_800x600_no-geotag By: Caveman Chuck Coker
At approximately 11.00 am on Wednesday, 6 April 1966, a class of students and a teacher from Westall High School (now Westall Secondary College) were just completing sports on the main oval when an object, described as being a grey saucer shaped craft with a slight purple hue and being about twice the size of [...]
Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California, completing the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas By: pgsvensk
The space shuttle Endeavour and the STS-126 crew landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California after completing a mission to the International Space Station. This morning we were watching the news and saw that the weather in Florida was too bad for the space shuttle Endeavour to land. NASA canceled the Florida landing and redirected [...]
The Mars Science Lab was launched November 26, 2011, and is scheduled to land on Mars at Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. The rover Curiosity, after completing a more precise landing than ever attempted previously, is intended to help assess Mars’ habitability for future human missions. Its primary mission objective is to determine whether [...]