NASA announced on Friday the names of the next generation of launch vehicles that will return humans to the moon and later take them to Mars and other...
The STS-121 mission to the Internnational Space Station was scrubbed today at the T-9 minutes built in hold. This was due to heavy weather systems at the...
The launch of Space Shuttle Discovery has been postponed for an additional 48 hours due to inclement weather at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Our next...
During a routine inspection overnight after the draining of the tank, a crack was discovered in the foam near a bracket on the external fuel tank that holds...
Great to see the complete launch up to the separation of the ET, as shown on BBC News 24. (Yes I just bought a Freeview Box for £19.99 at Argos. Well worth it...
If any one has any BIS Spaceflight magazines from 1969 to 1972 and 1980- 81 please let me know if you don't want them, perahps I could buy them from you... ...
Hi everyone STS-121 Mission Specialists Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum will take a stroll in space today. They will conduct a spacewalk to repair the ...
Space Shuttle Discovery gently undocked from the ISS at precisely 11:08 BST today after a successful mission loading and unloading supplies from the Leonardo...
Landing of Discovery is set for 14:14 BST Monday at the Kennedy Space Center. The crew is scheduled to fire the shuttle's engines at 13:07 to begin Discovery's...
The Real Story of Apollo 11: Stranger than FictionMonday, 24 July, 2006 at 21:00 on FiveGet yer tele's on:D, kick the over half and the cat out:O, put phone of...
Space Shuttle Atlantis took the slow four-mile journey out to Launch Pad 39B on Monday 31 July. Riding atop the mobile launch platform and carried by the...
A new picture for your computer desktop is available at the MSS Web Site. Just visit www.midspace.org.uk and select Free Wallpaper or new wallpaper. Mike...
7 August 2006. ESA astronaut and International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 13 crew member Thomas Reiter set a new record for the number of days spent in...
Mission STS-115 training exercises culminated on Thursday in Florida with a launch dress rehearsal and simulated countdown with the look and feel of a real...
Have seen 'Two Sides of the Moon' by DFavid Scott & Al;exei Leonov for 5quid in a publishers reminders shop also is it rue that the CEV has a name 'Orion'? ...
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To mark the anniversary of the first space shuttle flight, and the successful flight of Discovery 25 years later, I have put together a little photo-montage....
NASA is making an unprecedented investment in commercial space transportation services with the hope of creating a competitive market for supply flights to the...
Remember Alistair Campbell? He used to run the country in the early years of Tony Blair's reign. I saw him and his missus on "Who Wants to be a Celebrity...
Hi All I just had a great view of ISS passing over head. Very bright at mag -0.7 and an altitude of 50 degrees. These are "Heavens Above" predictions and I...
