NASA Selects Sunita Williams And 3 Other Astronauts For First US Commercial Space Flights

• 2015-07-09 23:39:43

NASA has selected four astronauts to train and prepare for commercial spaceflights that will return American launches to U.S. soil and further open up low-Earth orbit transportation to the private sector.

NASA Successfully Flight Tested Prandtl-d, Prototype Of First Mars Airplane

• 2015-07-05 05:40:30

If a NASA experimental program pans out, the first aircraft on Mars could be a flying wing. Under development at NASA Armstrong, the Prandtl–m is a flying wing glider designed to fly piggyback with a future Mars rover mission to provide low-altitude

Why 30 June 2015 Got An Extra Second

• 2015-07-02 10:14:24

"Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down a bit, so leap seconds are a way to account for that," said Daniel MacMillan of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Strictly speaking, a day lasts 86,400 seconds.

Biggest Solar Flare Of The Year 2014

• 2015-01-17 09:49:13

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, an M6.6-class, peaking at 11:32 pm EDT on Oct. 28, 2014 – the latest in a series of substantial flares from a giant active region on the sun

Google Lunar X Prize-A dollar 30 MILLION COMPETITION

• By: Admin
• 2014-11-19 22:15:47

The Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) is an inducement prize space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. The challenge calls for privately-funded spaceflight teams to compete to successfully la

Space Solar Power

• By: Dr. S. S.
• 2014-11-19 21:54:14

Concerns about climate change, rising pollution from fossil fuels and to meet the ever increasing demand of power supply require increasing use of renewable energy in coming years.