May 5th, 2013 at 3:00PM: Solar Impulse, the solar airplane that was set to fly across the United States, has taken off and completed the first leg of the journey from California to Arizona. Averaging an altitude of just 10,000 feet and a speed of 40.6 miles per hour, the flight took most of a day to complete. Technically, 14,000 people were on board, albeit virtually via streaming video.
Launching the "Clean ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Solar Airplane Completes First Leg Of Cross-Country Flight
May 5th, 2013 at 3:00PM: Solar Impulse, the solar airplane that was set to fly across the United States, has taken off and completed the first leg of the journey from California to Arizona. Averaging an altitude of just 10,000 feet and a speed of 40.6 miles per hour, the flight took most of a day to complete. Technically, 14,000 people were on board, albeit virtually via streaming video.
Launching the "Clean ...Cutbacks Have Smithsonian Down, But Not Out
May 3rd, 2013 at 9:00AM: Government cutbacks have affected travel in a number of ways. Passport applications and renewals are taking longer, as is the process for requesting a visa. Traveling abroad, less security at U.S. facilities means less protection for Americans. National parks have closed some facilities and delayed opening of others. Now, even the Smithsonian Institution in Washington is feeling the impact of ...Paying More For Flights? Try $70.6 Million Per Seat
May 1st, 2013 at 5:00PM: Travelers have become accustomed to paying more for flights as airline fees soar, tapping them for billions. Between baggage fees, service fees and in-flight fees, it is getting harder to find cheap fares and no one knows that better than NASA.
As the space shuttle program came to an end in 2011, NASA began relying on the Russian Space Agency to ferry astronauts and supplies back and forth from ...Space Shuttle Home Nears Completion In Florida
Apr 4th, 2013 at 1:00PM:
Space Shuttle Atlantis has a new home in Florida that is nearing completion. As the latest Space Coast attraction, the new $100-million home of the historic spacecraft will launch June 29 at Kennedy Space Center. Far more than a place to store the used orbiter, the new facility will offer visitors unprecedented access to what was once highly classified hardware, uniquely displayed.
This ...New Aviation Technology Brings Safer Travel Today, Looks To Future
Mar 13th, 2013 at 2:00PM:
Commercial aviation technology has come a long way since its first flight in 1914, a 23-minute flight between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida. Along the way, a great amount of the technology in today's aircraft, enabling travelers to fly around the world, was developed right here in the United States. That tradition continues with some recent advances, in use right now or on their way, that ...Space Travel Update: What NASA Is Up To These Days
Mar 11th, 2013 at 4:00PM: With the Space Shuttle program coming to an end and commercial space flight organizations providing service to the International Space Station, one might wonder what the people at NASA are doing these days. While we're not sure about other NASA facilities, Kennedy Space Center is keeping busy with a variety of activities.
The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has been the launch site used for every ...Flight To Comet Sold Out But There Are Other Options
Mar 8th, 2013 at 3:00PM:
Astronomers are calling 2013 "the year of the comet" as the first of two comets set to swing by Earth comes within view of the naked eye. Some avid sky watchers may be viewing with binoculars. Others may get an even closer view, thanks to a German travel agency.
On March 16, Eclipse Travel of Bonn, Germany, will have Air Berlin's flight 1000 full of stargazers, giving them two hours closer ...Friday Rocket Blast To Be Streamed Live
Feb 28th, 2013 at 4:00PM:
Earlier this week, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) fired up their Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft in a successful test to prepare for launch to the International Space Station, set for Friday, March 1, at 10:10 a.m. EST. Space travel fans can follow along during the event via LiveStream starting at 9:30 a.m.
Monday, SpaceX teams ran through all the countdown processes as if ...Celebrate MarsFest In Death Valley National Park This Weekend
Feb 28th, 2013 at 8:00AM: Death Valley National Park may look otherworldly at times but this weekend it will actually play host to an event that is definitely out of this world.
The second annual MarsFest will take place in the park starting Friday, March 1, running through Sunday, March 3. The event is designed to allow scientists and space enthusiasts to interact with one another as they jointly explore the ...Video: A Week In The Life Of The International Space Station
Feb 26th, 2013 at 4:00PM:
The International Space Station is one of the wonders of modern technology. A series of interconnected orbital modules are home to a rotating crew of astronauts and cosmonauts plus a host of ongoing experiments. While the ISS only gets into the news every now and then, interesting things are happening there daily.
Right now three astronauts – two American and one Canadian – are on ...
Mission To Mars Planned By Private Space Leaders
Feb 21st, 2013 at 5:00PM:
When we last heard from Dennis Tito, it was when the New York-born American engineer was catching a $20 million ride on the International Space Station. That was in 2001 and he did so against the wishes of NASA, instead hitting up the Russian Federal Space Agency for the lift. Now, 20+ years later, Tito plans a trip to Mars in a venture that should make him the first human ever to walk on the ...Help Name Pluto's Newly Discovered Moons
Feb 21st, 2013 at 2:00PM:
Pluto is one of the little mysteries of our solar system. An icy dwarf planet far from Earth, it's never been studied up close. The best scientists have been able to do is to examine it with the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the coolest scientific instruments ever invented.
In 2011 and 2012, they discovered two new moons around Pluto, bringing the total number of its satellites to five. ...NASA Tells Us Why The World Won't End With The Mayan Calendar Next Week
Dec 13th, 2012 at 8:00AM: December 21, 2012, is a day that has been circled on the calendars of conspiracy theorists and doomsday soothsayers for quite some time now. That's the day that the Mayan Calendar comes to an end, which has led some to believe that the world will be snuffed out along with it. If you buy into any of these theories, you're probably already preparing for the end in whatever way you find most ...Private Firm Announces Commercial Flights To The Moon For 2020
Dec 11th, 2012 at 8:00AM: A new start-up calling itself The Golden Spike Company has announced plans to commence commercial space flights to the moon beginning in 2020. But before you reach for your credit card and start booking your first flight, there are a few things you should know. The business is primarily aimed at nations – not private individuals – and it comes with the hefty price tag of $1.5 billion. ...Adventure Meets Cruise Ship On Extreme Shore Excursions
Dec 7th, 2012 at 5:00PM: It's not often that we write about adventure travel and cruises in the same story. It's more like kayaking and Costa Rica, or cruises and buffets. But some extreme shore excursion offerings by a few cruise lines have raised the bar so high, others may not catch up for a good long while.
Forget the stuffy tour bus and all the challenges of moving 50 or 60 people at a time around an iconic ...Antarctica's Tallest Peak Captured, North Pole Not So Much
Dec 4th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
Antarctica is our planet's southernmost continent and home to the South Pole, permanent manned research stations, penguins and an occasional adventure cruise ship expedition. This time of year, a lot of attention traditionally goes to Earth's North Pole, home of Santa and the gang. But NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory recently passed over Antarctica's tallest peak, Mount Vinson, as we see in this ...Space Shuttle Now Officially A Tourist Attraction
Nov 4th, 2012 at 4:00PM:
Space Shuttle Atlantis arrived this week at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to begin life as the star of a $100 million exhibit called the Shuttle Launch Experience, expected to open in July 2013. It was the historic final journey of a space shuttle orbiter, signaling the beginning of life after space for the shuttle fleet.
"We think visitors to Kennedy Space Center Visitor ...Student Spaceflight: Watch Live This Weekend
Oct 5th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
NASA's Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP) enables students across a community the ability to design and propose real experiments to fly in low Earth orbit on the International Space Station (ISS). This weekend, SpaceX launches the first official resupply mission to the ISS to be broadcast as it happens on Livestream with SSEP experiments on board.
Space history will be made this ...SpaceX Mission Viewing Available Live
Sep 30th, 2012 at 1:00PM:
The first SpaceX mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) happens October 7, 2012. The flight begins a series of missions to deliver and return cargo to the ISS under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract aboard the privately run Dragon spacecraft.
SpaceX's Dragon will bring 1,000 pounds of supplies to the six person Expedition 33 crew aboard the ISS. Those astronauts ...Photo Of The Day: Endeavour In San Francisco
Sep 22nd, 2012 at 5:00PM:
This Photo of the Day, "Endeavour in SF - see you in LA!" comes from Gadling Flickr pool member jrodmanjr and is taken with a Canon EOS 7D.
In 19 years of service, Endeavour went on 25 missions, carried 133 astronauts, spent 299 days in space and traveled 122,883,151 miles. Captured here by jrodmanjr is the shuttle's last journey, which began Monday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and ...
