News tagged with flight endurance record
Ion Tiger fuel cell unmanned air vehicle completes 23-hour flight
The Naval Research Laboratory's Ion Tiger, a hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle (UAV), has flown 23 hours and 17 minutes, setting an unofficial flight endurance record for a fuel-cell powered ...
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Oct 13, 2009 |
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NASA considering space station for Mars dry run
The International Space Station may provide the setting for a 500-day pretend trip to Mars in another few years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Skydiver prepares for record-setting freefall from the edge of space
In 2010, we reported on Felix Baumgartner and his upcoming attempt to break the sound barrier with his body, in a freefall from the edge of space. Part science experiment, part publicity stunt, part life-long ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit
The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight. John Glenn.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Australians make Antarctic history
Two Australian adventurers have made Antarctic history by becoming the first team to travel unaided to the South Pole and back, surviving three months of "extreme hardship", they said on Friday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Russia sends multinational crew to ISS
Russia on Wednesday sent a multinational crew of three astronauts to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Russian spacecraft delivers new crew to ISS
A spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked Wednesday with the International Space Station in the first Russian manned mission for five months after a spate of technical failures.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Russia resumes manned spaceflight after failures
Russia on Monday launches three astronauts for the International Space Station on a key mission Moscow hopes will restore faith in its space programme after an unprecedented string of failures.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2011 |
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Helping space shuttles achieve liftoff
Friday’s scheduled liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis marks the beginning of the end of nearly four decades of collaboration between MIT and NASA on the nation’s space shuttle program -- a partnership that has shaped ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 08, 2011 |
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LRO takes extreme close-up of eclipse
(PhysOrg.com) -- Orbiting about 31 miles above the lunar surface, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft will get a "front-row seat" to the total lunar eclipse on June 15, says Noah Petro, Associate Project ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Solar-powered plane's second cross-border flight cut short (Update)
Swiss solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse Saturday took off for its second international flight from Brussels for Paris but turned back for the Belgian capital after a series of glitches.
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Jun 11, 2011 |
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