Streams of smoke trail from the main landing gear tires as space shuttle Atlantis touches down on Runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after 11 days in space, completing the 4.5-million-mile STS-129 mission on orbit 171. On STS-129, the crew delivered 14 tons of cargo to the [...]
Archive for November, 2009
The space shuttle Atlantis landed safely in Florida early Friday to end an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. Read more…
Seen over the Mediterranean Sea, near the Algerian coast, the space shuttle Atlantis is featured in this image photographed by the Expedition 21 crew on the International Space Station soon after the shuttle and station began their post-undocking separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 4:53 a.m. EST on Nov. 25, 2009. Image Credit: [...]
Seen over the Mediterranean Sea, near the Algerian coast, the space shuttle Atlantis is featured in this image photographed by the Expedition 21 crew on the International Space Station soon after the shuttle and station began their post-undocking separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 4:53 a.m. EST on Nov. 25, 2009. Image Credit: [...]
A dozen astronauts in orbit will pause for a weightless Thanksgiving Thursday, despite the fact that they’re flying on two different spaceships. Read more…
A dozen astronauts in orbit will pause for a weightless Thanksgiving Thursday, despite the fact that they’re flying on two different spaceships. Read more…
In what seems to be the norm for Google, it is once again disrupting an entire market by giving something away for free that’s both competitive and capable. TomTom and Garmin saw their share prices plummet upon Google’s announcement, and rightfully so. Read more…
The day after Thanksgiving is the best day to find holiday bargains. But with so many stores offering deals, how—and where—do you start looking? Read more…
Fox Filmed Entertainment CEO Jim Gianopulos believes the US should follow France’s lead and impose a “three-strikes” system disconnecting repeat file-sharers from the Internet.He said that internet piracy is the single biggest threat to the worldwide film industry, and that independent films are the hardest hit. Read more…
A Dutch court ruling forces the file-sharing website Mininova to remove all torrents linked to copyright material. Read more…