In no time, space Pirates raided the space station holding the baby Metroid and nabbed it.
The risk to the space station is considered to be very small and within acceptable limits.
The evening launch of space shuttle Atlantis from the Kennedy space Center precedes its mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir in 1997.
Goodyear built in 1961 this 24-foot-wide model of a rubber doughnut-shaped space space station, which, perhaps not surprisingly, looked like an inner tube.
Discovery is delivering a new astronaut sleeping quarters, an ammonia tank and a gyroscope for the space station.
The seven Endeavour astronauts were ultimately delayed until July, when they flew a marathon delivery flight to the space station.
A Japanese astronaut plans to throw a boomerang inside a space station. He wants to test how it can fly in zero gravity, an official said.
In microgravity condition, the influence of the size of inlets and outlets on the flow field in the experimental space station cabin was studied.
The Tiangong II, marking another milestone in its increasingly ambitious space program, which envisions a mission to Mars by the end of this decade and its own space station by around 2020.
Yang Liwei, China's first spaceman, confirmed this weekend that the country planned to set up its first orbital space station by around 2020, according to the People's Daily website.
The International space station is the ninth inhabited space station to orbit Earth.
"A situation arose linked to unidentified 'space trash' passing very close to the space station," the Russian space agency had earlier explained.
Minutes earlier, the Russian capsule had backed away from the space station, carrying Nespoli and two other station residents back to Earth after a five-month stay.
Rendezvous and docking is a key skill that we must master for building the space station. If this step is taken then the space station is around the corner.
The work of a space driver is not hard but a tedious one. Robert Stark docked his space lorry to a god forsaken space station and went to the bar. He could not foresee the result of his visit…
The mission of Endeavour is to deliver spare parts to the space station and a last segment of the Japanese Kibo lab.
For now, astronauts and cosmonauts who become critically sick or injured at the international space station-- something that has never happened-- can leave the orbiting outpost220 miles above Earth and return home within hours aboard a Russian Soyuz space vehicle.
The prototype Death Star was never intended to be a practical weapon of war, so there was no need to install the maintenance and repair machinery, the immense computer core, or the hyperdrive engines that took up a huge amount of space in the actual Death Star space station.
The second phase focuses on mastering four key technologies for assembling a space station.
The radar image of the station therefore looks like a dense collection of bright spots from which the Outlines of the space station can be clearly identified.
Short visits to the space station are relentless but easier to cope with psychologically than longer ones.
Discovery is scheduled to dock to the space station at 3:44 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7. The shuttle will deliver science experiments, equipment and supplies to the station.
A rocket belonging to India's space agency lifted off from the Sriharikota space station in Andhra Pradesh early Monday, putting a cluster of ten satellites into earth orbit within minutes.
The next stage of space travel is a space station.
The debris was spotted too late for the space station to dodge it.
Moreover, the panel said that Ares I/Orion would be ready to fly to the space station only in 2017, six years after the space shuttle retires.
Canadian astronaut Julie Payette says the two-armed Dextre system will enable crew members to carry out delicate operations on the space station.
Much of it was servicing the space station, taking water, coffee, sleeping bags and spare parts in, and moving rubbish out; launching satellites, retrieving them, and making running repairs.
The space station design was unveiled on alive broadcast to celebrate the Chinese New year.
To develop light, reliable, sanitary space station maneuverable orbital transfer thruster, the novel gas dynamic resonance ignition method was applied.
JIUQUAN, Gansu - China will launch the country's first space laboratory module between 9:16and 9:31 pm on Thursday, paving the way for its own space station, a spokesperson confirmed.
Space Adventures has already sent seven people to the space station, using Russian rockets.
Crewmen wearing pressurized suits assemble cables to rockets, which serve as building units for an inhabitable space station.
This is the next-to-last shuttle mission and the final spacewalks of the program scheduled, meant to leave the space station in the best condition possible for the next decade.
Vittori, a European space Agency astronaut, had spent eight days on the international space station, while Sharipov and Chiao had been on the orbiting lab since October.
The space shuttle took five astronauts to the space station.
Even Sunita Williams, who spent 195 consecutive days on the space station - a female record - had her long dark hair chopped to shoulder length but still had problems.
The country's first space docking, an essential step in building a space station is planned for next year when two unmanned space modules, Tiangong I and Shenzhou VIII, are launched.
We're going to try to photograph all the vehicles out there at the same time, get a family picture and see some interesting imagery we've never seen of the space station before.
Fans of bona fide space nerd Stephen Colbert bombed a NASA-sponsored contest to name a new space station node, and the TV host won.
They delayed or canceled astronomy and space missions, gambling the agency's future on hardware like the space shuttle and space station.