Aug 04
A privately funded rocket was lost on its way to space, bringing a third failure in a row to an Internet multimillionaire’s effort to create a market for low-cost space-delivery business.
Aug 04
Raw video:August 01/08:The total eclipse of the Sun, seen over the Canadian Arctic, August 1, 2008. Photographed from altitude of 27,000 feet from a location 140 km east of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
Aug 04
The flag is probably gone. Buzz Aldrin saw it knocked over by the rocket blast as he and Neil Armstrong left the moon 39 summers ago. The truth is, no one knows exactly what the Apollo landing sites will look like, or in what condition Russian spacecraft like the Luna 9 or the geological rover, Lunokhod 1, will be in after four decades.