Click to open image viewer. This is the control unit from a flown Space Shuttle on-board computer, designed and manufactured by the IBM Corporation for the Shuttle program. An operational Shuttle has ...

Click to open image viewer. Astronauts stay fit in space through daily exercise on a cycle ergometer or treadmill.This cycle ergometer flew on a number of Space Shuttle missions. The boxy part is the ...

I don't know if this really belongs in the lounge or not, but I think it would be an interesteng topic of discussion anyway. I was watching Apollo13 2 nights ago and I was thinking- "man it's amazing ...

A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The ...

Continuing repairs to two Russian computers that control water, oxygen and positioning for the International Space Station hit a roadblock today when the computers could not be brought fully back ...