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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

Paksat-1R Satellite launched Successfully in China, with the help of Chinese brothers ... It is Launched 3 days before the Schedule.before its was schedule on 14th but due to same clamate changes its launched early Surprise for the WORLD. its pakistan first telecomection Setellite.the project is started in 2008 now the dream come true PAKSAT-1R will operate from orbital location of 38° East Longitude and shall offer C and Ku band coverage in over 75 countries across Europe, Africa, Middle East, South and Central Asia. thanks to CCTV for covrage Pak-China friendship forever

The 747 series of aircraft are four-engine intercontinental-range, swept-wing "jumbo jets" that entered commercial service in 1969. NASA Boeing 747-100 & Space Shuttle - Manchester Airport (Taken by Michael Bailey 1983) The SCAs are used to ferry space shuttle orbiters from landing sites back to the launch complex at the Kennedy Space Center and also to and from other locations too distant for the orbiters to be delivered by ground transportation. The orbiters are placed atop the SCAs by Mate-Demate Devices, large gantry-like structures that hoist the orbiters off the ground for post-flight servicing and then mate them with the SCAs for ferry flights. It was a significant craft built for NASA used purely for atmospheric test flights and it never flew in space, but it was crucial to the Space Shuttle program. Enterprise was originally to be named Constitution. United States of America's President Gerald Ford requested that NASA change the name of it from Const

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.

Recovered debris from the space shuttle Columbia The 1m-wide spherical tank was found in Lake Nacogdoches, near the Texas town of the same name where much of the debris initially fell. The object, which is about 4 feet in diameter, was found in a local lake. NASA says it is a tank that provides power and water for shuttle missions. By BBc and CNN

Space Shuttle Columbia (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before being destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th, STS-107. All seven crew members were killed Construction began on Columbia in 1975 at Rockwell International's (formerly North American Aviation/North American Rockwell, now Boeing North America) principal assembly facility in Palmdale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles The first flight of Columbia (STS-1) was commanded by John Young, a Gemini and Apollo veteran who was the ninth person to walk on the Moon in 1972, and piloted by Robert Crippen Columbia was successfully launched on April 12, 1981, the 20th anniversary of the first human spaceflight (Vostok 1), and returned on April 14, 1981, after orbiting the Earth 36 times, landing on the dry lakebed runway at E

MILA Tracking Station Closes NASA retired most of their ground stations long ago when the TDRSS geosync Ku-band satellites were placed in orbit. However you still need ground stations to receive the TDRSS downlink. Also, commercial is going to have to rely on someone's tracking network, mostly likely NASA's. The MILA tracking station at Kennedy Space Center is closing after 45 years supporting NASA launches.Thats true but I'm just portraying what congress thinks ^^Congress just doesn't give a brown turd about spaceflight because it's nothing profitable(yet) But once Europe China and Russia start launching their rockets to mars and the moon I'm sure America will jump on the bandwagon saying they are the number 1 best country in the world XD

the video of the very first moon landing of the apollo 11 mission in 1969! Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon with his now legenday words "One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." This is a truly amazing video and it was in 1969!!! If you think about it, you have orders of magnitude more processing power in your mobile phone than they did in the whole space craft!! Incredible!

apollo 11 launch viewed from three different angles This Saturn V roars off the launch pad into space Discovery Shuttle Launch IMAX / ISS / First Moon Walk / Fly July 1969 / Galaxy / The video of the very first moon landing of the apollo 11 mission in 1969! Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon with his now legenday words "One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." This is a truly amazing video and it was in 1969!!! If you think about it, you have orders of magnitude more processing power in your mobile phone than they did in the whole space craft!! Incredible!

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