"I have a lot of facilities that we, NASA, no longer need," according to the center's director, Robert Cabana. "I don't have the money to maintain them, I don't have the money to tear them down. They're just going to sit and rot."
"I had a sense that something went wrong but it wasn't until we were on the plane that the pilot confirmed the tragedy," says the man who shot the rare footage.
A crew of three will pilot the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft to China’s Tiangong 1 space lab, which has been orbiting Earth since Sept. 2011, Space.com reported.
"There is not anymore one single European satellite which cannot be launched by a European launcher service," said Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad personally ordered the launch via videolink, saying that he hoped the project would "promise further friendship for humanity."
Roughly the size of a card table, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer is one of NASA’s low-cost, rapidly developed Small Explorers spacecraft. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Courtesy)
A NASA probe has directly observed material from outside our solar system for the first time, National Geographic reported.
"Restoring the US space program to greatness will require the leadership, management skill and commitment to American exceptionalism possessed by only one candidate in this race: Mitt Romney," the men said in an open letter.
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