NASA on Monday decided to extend the final flight of the space shuttle Atlantis by one day in order to unpack items brought to the International Space Station.
One would think that an aircraft with additional engines would provide even better performance on normal takeoffs, but the extra engines actually reduces it.
Early Friday morning, a Delta II rocket carrying a climate research and weather forecasting satellite took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
The folks at Taiwan's NextMedia, who have previously given Tiger Woods and Lindsay Lohan the cartoon treatment, today animated America's newest hero, Steven Slater.