NASA's unmanned spaceship Orion blasts off for trial run Toronto Sun CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A U.S. spaceship designed to one day fly astronauts to Mars blasted off Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for a four-and-a-half hour unmanned trial run around Earth. | Riding atop a fountain of fire, the 24-story-tall Delta 4 Heavy rocket, the bigge...
Orion launch scrubbed, reset for Friday Sun Sentinel KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – NASA plans to try again Friday to launch its next-generation space capsule Orion after a wayward boat, wind gusts and fuel valve problems scrubbed Thursday's launch.lRelated NewsOrion spacecraft arrives at Cape CanaveralSee all related | 8 | The next launch time fro...
NASA 'emails' spanner to space for the first time Sydney Morning Herald Washington: Now that the International Space Station has a 3D printer, engineers can design new tools on the ground and then beam them up to space. | In September, Made In Space shipped a 3D printer to the astronauts at the space station. In Nov...
NASA 'emails' spanner to space for the first time Canberra Times Running repairs: Astronaut Mike Hopkins on a spacewalk last year to replace a faulty water pump outside the International Space Station. Photo: Reuters/NASA | Washington: Now that the International Space Station has a 3D printer, engineers can d...
Twist and shout: NASA prints 3-D wrench in space CNN updated 5:29 PM EST, Fri December 19, 2014 | (CNN) -- Bringing supplies to astronauts on the International Space Station can be a little screwy, leaving astronauts waiting for the next costly and risky resupply mission. | This week, thanks to 3-D pri...
University of Birmingham water fleas in space BBC News Water fleas taken from a pond at the University of Birmingham have been selected for a space mission. | The idea is to see how they react to life in space on the International Space Station (ISS). | The experiment was the idea of a group of school ch...
3D printer makes tool on space station BBC News Astronauts on the International Space Station have used their 3-D printer to make a wrench from instructions sent up in an e-mail. | It is the first time hardware has been "e-mailed" to space. | Nasa was responding to a request by ISS comma...
Orion launch scrubbed, reset for Friday Sun Sentinel KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – NASA plans to try again Friday to launch its next-generation space capsule Orion after a wayward boat, wind gusts and fuel valve problems scrubbed Thursday's launch.lRelated NewsOrion spacecraft arrives at Cape CanaveralSee all related | 8 | The next launch time from Cape Canaveral Air Station was set for 7:05 a.m....
Birds 'heard tornadoes coming' and fled the day before BBC News US scientists say tracking data showing five golden-winged warblers left their nesting site a day a tornado outbreak suggests the birds "heard it coming". | Geolocators showed the birds, which had just finished a 5,000km migration, left the Appalachians and flew 700km (400 miles) south to the Gulf of Mexico. | The next day the deadly Apri...
