A prototype rocket designed to replace the aging US space shuttle fleet successfully took off for a two-minute test flight Wednesday after weather-related delays.
The first test flight of a rocket designed to replace the aging US space shuttle fleet is scheduled for Tuesday amid uncertainty over the future of manned space flight.
The US space shuttle Discovery has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on a mission to bring supplies to the International Space Station. Originally scheduled to lift off on Tuesday, the launch had been delayed three times.
A problem with the hydrogen fuel tank valve of the Discovery shuttle forced Nasa to delay its launch until Saturday. The US space agency has already been prevented from launching Discovery because of stormy weather.
NASA called off the launch of the US space shuttle Discovery at the last minute because of stormy weather conditions at the launch site. The lift-off has been put back by 24 hours.
NASA has given a final green light to continue the countdown to the launch of the shuttle Discovery on Tuesday toward the International Space Station, carrying a crew of seven.
The space shuttle Endeavour has landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida, after a sixteen-day assembly mission with the final piece of Japan’s Kibo laboratory at the International Space Station.
As the world celebrates man’s first footsteps on the moon 40 years ago, French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy looks back on 40 years of space exploration.
