Company Aims To Build Private Space Station by 2015
The second experimental pathfinder spacecraft by Bigelow
Aerospace, Genesis II, has been successfully launched and inserted
into orbit. The privately-funded space station module was launched
on a Dnepr rocket Thursday morning from the ISC Kosmotras Yasny
Cosmodrome in the Orenburg region of Russia.
"Calculated Risk" Could Be Long-Lived Rover's Last Mission
It could be the final mission for NASA's Mars rover
Opportunity... but even if it is, it's worth it. Scientists at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory tell ANN Opportunity is scheduled to soon
begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's
massive Victoria Crater.
In preparation for the STS-118 mission to the International
Space Station, NASA is scheduled to rollover space shuttle
Endeavour from its hanger, the Orbiter Processing Facility, to the
Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building on Monday, July
2.
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