Looks to be minor so far, but the Space Shuttle Atlantis took a debris hit on ascent: Engineers at the Johnson Space Center are evaluating a small area of tile damage on the forward part of the shuttle Atlantis’ right wing where it joins the ship’s fuselage. The nicked tiles, apparently damaged during launch by […]

Just a reminder on the historic event coming today which I posted on previously. Today is the day NASA launches the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, a challenging upgrade mission to allow Hubble to operate for another 4-5 years. And it won’t be trivial: Nasa is set to dispatch seven astronauts on […]

  I rarely give out TV alerts (seriously, what is on TV that would warrant and ‘alert’), but this month there is a historic broadcast for one of the most amazing science instruments human kind ever created: Hubble Live: The Final Mission  Described as the most valuable scientific instrument in the history of mankind, Hubble […]