Space Shuttle Discovery Flies to Smithsonian

April 19 2012 by KSN in North America |Comments Off on Space Shuttle Discovery Flies to Smithsonian

America’s Space Shuttle Discovery flew over the nation’s capital on April 17, to retire to its final resting place at the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex. Its final “flight” (piggy-backed) is dwarfed by its flight mileage in space: according to one source, it flew 148 million miles, more than the distance […]

First Human in Space

April 12 2011 by KSN in Uncategorized |Comments Off on First Human in Space

Fifty years ago today, Yuri Gagarin, of the U.S.S.R., became the first human to be launched into space, electrifying the world and shocking the Soviet Union’s major competitor, the United States of America. The Russian pilot circled the earth in one orbit, in a Vostok spacecraft, to be precise the Vostok 3KA, which had flown in […]

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