The problems with the Mir space station do not seem to get over. On January 2, its main computer broke down again taking the orientation system off-line in the process. Mir's main computer broke down
a robotic camera was released on December 3 - 40 feet above space shuttle Columbia - by a spacewalking us astronaut, Winston Scott. The camera - about the size of a beach ball - is the first
A vast halo of gamma rays surrounds the Milky Way galaxy, say scientists. Gamma rays are particles of light that contain highest levels of energy of all forms of radiation. Dave Dixon and his
brazil's floundering space programme suffered another blow when the ground control was forced to destroy the first space rocket launched in Brazil after one of its four engines failed to start.
the beleaguered Russian space station Mir received a shot in the arm when two cosmonauts made a space walk of six hours and 17 minutes to install a new solar panel outside the station's
A lot of effort has gone into programming Cassini, the last of the bigger spaceships produced by NASA. But the mission is unlike others in that the probe is hardwired to study one planet, yet flexible enough to counter the unexpected
The technical wizardry that has gone into programming the probe will be put to the test in the most crucial post launch event placing Cassini in orbit around Saturn
