Two days after A rare launch aborted at the last secondA Russian Soyuz spacecraft took off on a flight to the International Space Station on Saturday, carrying two short-term crew members and a NASA astronaut on a six-month mission. Soyuz MS-25/71S commander Oleg Novitskiy, Belarusian guest cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya and NASA veteran Tracy Dyson thundered … Read more
The space shuttle Endeavor is wrapped in protective shrink wrap and is parked next to its external fuel tanks as it waits to be lifted by a 450-foot crane and placed next to its fuel tanks at the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center next week. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Barring … Read more
The giant external orange fuel tank of Space Shuttle Endeavor, ET-94, stands next to two 140-foot solid rocket boosters at the California Science Center on Wednesday. The tank was lifted with a crane on Friday and placed between the rocket boosters. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) An external fuel tank, crafted to … Read more