Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster 25 Years Ago Today
25 years ago today the world witnessed the disaster of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. We honor the memory of those who lost their lives in this tragedy. Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Ellison...
View ArticleDale's Daily Data: Shuttle Columbia Disaster
It was just last week we remembered the crew of the space shuttle Challenger who were killed in 1986 when the fuel tank exploded a minute after launch. Today is the 8th anniversary of the break-up of...
View ArticleHow They Built The International Space Station
Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was the International Space Station. Big thanks to WYRK listener Tom Garwol of Williamsville for providing the link to this very cool video of the construction of...
View ArticleEveryday Items Invented By NASA – Dale's Daily Data
It was more than 50 years ago when Alan Sheppard became the first American to fly into space. Since then 12 men have walked on the moon. More than 500 people from 39 countries including 55 women have...
View Article2nd Last Space Shuttle Flight – Dale's Daily Data
The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled for its final mission into space this morning before it’s retired leaving just one more mission for the shuttle program this summer. After more than 30 years...
View ArticleKennedy's Challenge To Land A Man On The Moon – Dale's Daily Data
With the Soviet Union having put the first man in space just a month before it became a personal goal of President John F. Kennedy to send an American to the moon by the end of the decade of the 1960’s...
View ArticleNASA's Plan to Send Humans into Low Orbit Saves Hundreds of Jobs
With the space shuttle program having come to an end, NASA has quickly revealed its next plan for returning to space. NASA will work with one of its longtime commercial partners and a European...
View ArticleHistory's First Look at the Space Shuttle – Dale's Daily Data
It took 10 billion dollars and 10 years to develop, but the first space shuttle made its first public debut in a ceremony in California on this date in 1976. The following year the Enterprise, made...
View ArticleNASA Satellite Returns to Earth – Somewhere
NASA scientists say that dead satellite returned to earth overnight somewhere over the Pacific, but with a 500 mile area where it could have fallen they're not sure exactly where it fell. Most of it...
View ArticleHow To See This Weekend's Meteor Shower
Looking for something to do this weekend that won't cost you a dollar? Stay up late Friday night and check out the stars. I'm not trying to be a cheeseball, but this weekend is the Orionid meteor...
View ArticleLook Out Below? Major Asteroid To Pass Close To Earth.
An asteroid bigger than a jumbo jet is on course to come close to the Earth and moon on Tuesday. Its been about 35 years since a space object of this size has graced the proximity of our planet....
View ArticleSally Ride – The First Woman in Space Dies at 61
TMZ is reporting that Sally Ride has passed away. In 1983 she did something that no other woman before her had done. She was the first woman in space. But with that trip, she also broke another...
View ArticleNASA Says The World Won't End Next Week
NASA is so confident the world won't end on December 21st that they're releasing a video ahead of time. The video "Why The World Didn't End Yesterday" was originally scheduled to be released on...
View ArticleWould You Take A Honeymoon To Mars?
Would you want to go to Mars? Financial tycoon Dennis Tito, who himself took a ride in space on the International Space Station, has unveiled a trip to Mars for husband and wife astronauts to launch...
View ArticleHubble Telescope's Days Are Numbered
Conceived in the 1940’s, designed in the 1970’s, built in the 1980’s, it was in April of 1990 that the Hubble telescope was placed into orbit by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery. A major problem...
View ArticleLadies Make Big Splash In Space Program
NASA has picked eight new astronauts, half of them women. And that’s the highest percentage of female astronaut candidates ever selected for a class. There were 6,100 applicants. NASA says they choose...
View ArticleAstronauts Put A GoPro In A Water Bubble In Space And Then Things Get Weird...
If space was just a quick drive away I think it would be fun. However, you need to be super smart and healthy to go up there! But once you're there you get to do the coolest things! Continue reading…
View ArticleWould You Do This For $18,000? I Would…
About a year ago, NASA was looking for people to stay in bed straight for 70 days and $170 dollars a day and they're looking for people again! Continue reading…
View ArticleIt's the 10th Anniversary of the Historic Landing on Saturn's Moon Titan
In 2014, the European Space Agency (ESA) did the incredible: it landed a probe on a comet. But this wasn't its first rodeo. Ten years ago, it parked a probe on the hazy, alien moon of Titan. Continue...
View ArticleHubble Telescope’s Days Are Numbered
Conceived in the 1940’s, designed in the 1970’s, built in the 1980’s, it was in April of 1990 that the Hubble telescope was placed into orbit...
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