Cape Canaveral: Confronted with orbiting junk again, Nasa ordered the astronauts aboard the linked space station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of a piece of debris on Sunday.
Two visiting space shuttle astronauts floated outside the ISS on Thursday to hook up a final set of solar panel wings to bring the orbital outpost to full power. Spacewalkers Steven Swanson and Richard Arnold spent six hours outside the station during the first of three spacewalks planned for the flight.
As the country readies to put human on a space flight, scientists are busy developing next generation rockets that can carry more astronauts and put heavier satellites in the orbit.
Vandenberg Air Force Base: A rocket carrying a NASA satellite crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after a failed launch on Tuesday, ending a USD 280 million mission to track global warming from space.
Chandrayaan-1, the first Indian planetary exploration mission, will carry out high resolution remote sensing studies of the moon to further our understanding about its origin and evolution.
