India to launch the geo-stationary satellite GSAT, to be used for communication purposes, using the PSLV rocket.

With the end of the space shuttle program, NASA wants to erase out its legacy. This seems to be the mood, one of disbelief, desperation and anger, in the astronomy circles, in reaction to the cancellation of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program.

NASA’s four decade long and $209 billion worth space shuttle program comes to an end with the launch of Atlantis on 8th July. But was the shuttle program really worth all that much? A balanced look.

Atlantis is set to launch in two days – the final breath of the NASA’s four decade old space shuttle program. With a crew of four, it will deliver essential supplies and spares to the ISS.

Voyager is at the edge of the ‘heliosphere’, going farther than any other craft before it or since.

Endeavour has landed. The last space flight, STS-134, of the youngest shuttle in the NASA fleet, beloved by one and all, came to an end after 16 days in space on the second last mission NASA has planned to the International Space Station.

The ISS and the space shuttle Endeavour will be visible as thin streaks on a time-lapse photo. This wonderful spectacle will initially be visible only in the Southern Hemisphere, but will also become visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

The last flight of the space shuttle Endeavour, STS-134, will take place on Monday, the 16th of May. The launch is scheduled for 08:56 AM, EST, or 12:56 GMT from the Kennedy Space Centre.

State run station Xinhua reported that China is planning to initially set up a two-module space-station, named Tiangong-1 as soon as late this year. Tiangong means ‘Heavenly Palace’ in English.

NASA has just called off the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour by at least three days due to a glitch in one of the thermostats onboard ths shuttle. The Kennedy Space Center has issued an explanation why the launch, STS-134, was postponed.

On the 29th of April, the space shuttle, Endeavour, will liftoff, primarily, to deliver a multi-billion dollar instrument – the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) – to the International Space Station. The liftoff is scheduled for 1947 GMT on 29th April, from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida.

If the Cosmos is the place of all things beautiful and unusual, the Hubble Space telescope (known simply as ‘Hubble’ or HST) is the ultimate eye to see it with. Launched on 20th April, 1990, aboard the Discovery space shuttle by NASA, as the best of the space-based optical telescopes, Hubble has reached out to all.

It has been variously billed as ‘The Final Frontier’, ‘The Great Unknown’ and ‘The Heavens’. It has enthralled humans since the caveman days. It is mysterious; it is attractive. On 12th April, 1961, space was conquered by a man called Yuri Gagarin, aka “The Columbus of the Cosmos”. Today, 50 years ago, took place the first manned space-flight.