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Neil Armstrong Man who created the history Former US astronaut, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died at the age of 82, U.S. media reported on Saturday. Armstrong underwent a heart-bypass surgery earlier this month, just two days after his birthday on Aug. 5, to relieve blocked coronary arteries. As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. As he stepped on the moon's dusty surface, Armstrong said: ""That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." First Monn Walk and Shuttle Launch Video The Apollo 11 moon mission turned out to be Armstrong's last space flight. The following year he was appointed to a desk job, being named NASA's deputy associate administrator for aeronautics in the office of advanced research and technology. He left NASA a year later to become a professor of engineering at the University of Cincinnati. The former astronaut lived in

New Nasa photographs show most of the flags placed by crews of the Apollo spacecraft are still standing on the Moon. Shadows cast by five of the six US flags put up in the 1960s and 1970s are visible on the surface of the Moon as it spins around the sun. The remaining flag - planted by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the first moon landing in 1969 - was knocked over as the Apollo 11 craft began ascending from the surface. Mark Robinson, an investigator with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), said: "From the LROC it is now certain that the American flags are still standing and casting shadows at all of the sites, except Apollo 11. "Astronaut Buzz Aldrin reported that the flag was blown over by the exhaust from the ascent engine during liftoff of Apollo 11, and it looks like he was correct! "Personally I was a bit surprised that the flags survived the harsh ultraviolet light and temperatures of the lunar surface, but they did." The famous St

The Super Guppy aircraft was acquired by NASA from the European Space Agency under an International Space Station barter agreement. Manufactured by Airbus Industries, ESA supplied the aircraft to offset the cost to NASA of carrying ESA experiment equipment to the station as part of two future Space Shuttle flights. The new Super Guppy is the latest version in a long line of Guppy cargo aircraft used by NASA. Guppy aircraft were used in several past space programs, including Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab, to transport spacecraft components. The first Guppy aircraft was developed in 1962, designed specifically for NASA operations by Aero Spacelines of California.      An innovative approach to management of the new Super Guppy allows the aircraft to be leased from the government for other cargo-carrying operations when it is not being used to ship NASA spacecraft components. The leasing of the aircraft is hoped to offset the cost of operations.                                         

The US company SpaceX's Dragon cargo vessel was released by the robotic arm of the International Space Station early Thursday at the start of its return to Earth, NASA said. "Dragon is free from the International Space Station," a NASA TV spokesman announced at 0949 GMT, as a live video feed showed the white capsule floating against the backdrop of the blue planet. The Dragon flew up cargo to the complex on it's first test mission, becoming the first ever commercial vehicle to visit the Station. So far all of the mission milestones have been met as the mission continues successfully, assuming the safe return of the vehicle and cargo SpaceX will begin regular flights to the Station delivering cargo under the Commercial Resupply Services program by NASA. The next flight CRS-1 is due later this year. This spacecraft is also being designed to bring crews to the International Space Station, with SpaceX hoping to fly the first manned mission in the nex

Many of us rember the last transit of venus A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transit of 2004 lasted six hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon. While the diameter of Venus is almost four times that of the Moon, Venus appears smaller, and travels more slowly across the face of the Sun, because it is much farther away from Earth. Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. The next transit of Venus will occur on 5 and 6 June 2012, and will be the last Venus transit this century.The Venus will vissble like a smaal black disc in front on sun for nearly 6 hour and after that the venus will visible in 2117

Nasa Atlas 5 - Mars Rocket Launch Mars Rover Launch ''Curiosity'' 26/11/11 Nasa Launches another of its mars rovers, this one being its most expensive, dubbed 'curiosity' it is scheduled to arrive at the mineral-rich Martian 'Gale Crater' next August. NASA's biggest and most-expensive robotic rover has blasted off from Cape Canaveral on a voyage of discovery. The probe, nicknamed Curiosity, is scheduled to arrive at the mineral-rich Martian 'Gale Crater' next August. It aims to search the surface for clues about whether the planet has ever had a life-friendly environment.

A narrated play-by-play of Curiosity's entry, descent, and landing on Mars! This 4-minute animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012.

NASA first found signs of water on Mars more than a decade ago, but earlier indications were that any existing water would be frozen and concentrated at the poles. NASA scientists believe that if there is liquid water on Mars, it would be highly salty and lie beneath the surface. That would explain why it would not freeze in the planet's frigid surface temperatures, which can fall to around 200 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (minus 128 degrees Celsius), or evaporate in its low air pressure.

An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday, sending a robotic scout on its way to Jupiter to sniff out details about how the solar system formed. NASA's Juno spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter after being launched aboard an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on August 5 at 11:25 a.m. Eastern. The solar-powered spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in July 2016 and orbit its poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant's interior, atmosphere and aurora. Scientists believe Jupiter holds the key to better understanding the origins of our solar system. Now that NASA has retired its shuttle fleet, the U.S. space spotlight could shift toward the robotic probes and observatories have brought the biggest leaps toward understanding the cosmos.

Space shuttle Atlantis has landed in Florida. NASA shuttle program is now over with Atlantis' successful space station resupply mission. The shuttle blasted into orbit July 8 and landed on the 50th anniversary of Gus Grissom's suborbital flight. The next-to-youngest shuttle will remain at Kennedy Space Center and be put on display. Space shuttle Atlantis final landing: NASA 30-year program over