... The timing of the bright passage was about 10 minutes after the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-124 mission ... In chasing after the space station, the shuttle also made a pass over Lauffen just 21 minutes after launch. ...
... was discovered over 35 years ago, soon after the first X-ray satellites were launched, and has since gone unexplained ... Yesterday results were released using data from the recently launched Chandra X-Ray Observatory that appears to have resolved ...
... In stark contrast to this innocent sounding name, the launch of the Earth's first "artificial moon", Sputnik 1 , by the Soviets ... A short month later, on November 3, the Soviets followed this success by launching a dog into orbit aboard Sputnik 2. ...
... A: Pioneer 10 -- and 1997 was the 25th anniversary of its launch. ... Note: In 1998 Voyager 1 , launched 5 years later but traveling faster than Pioneer 10, became humanity's most distant ...
... Explanation: NASA is preparing to launch its next Great Observatory in 2002, but it does not yet have a proper name. ... SIRTF will be the most powerful infrared telescope ever launched, imaging everything from nearby planetary disks to distant ...
... The Flight Deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour . Image Credit Copyright : Ben Cooper ( Launch Photography ), Spaceflight Now . ... Pictured above is the flight deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour , the youngest shuttle and the second to last ever launched . ...
... Two months ago, the second of two missions to Mars was launched from Cape Canaveral , Florida , USA above a Boeing Delta II ... A first rover named Spirit was successfully launched on June 10 and will arrive at Mars a few weeks earlier. ...