With the next to the last flight of the American space shuttle in the air, the US will soon be retiring their space shuttles to replace them with a new vehicle, scheduled for 2013. Of course, seeing how things always delay in America, it is more likely 2023 is a better year. Until then, the Americans will be riding on Russian Soyuz capsules. But the Soyuz itself, a 40 year old technology with many modernizations, is on its way out, to be replaced with bigger better platforms

29.10.2009
Entertainment remains one of the driving forces of scientific progress. Electronic makers invest a lot in the development of new state-of-the-art technologies. LED TVs are one of the recent achievements of the modern-day electronic industry. Will LED eventually replace LCD and plasma TV sets?

23.10.2009
The demand for Vista, launched in the beginning of 2007, leaves much to be desired. Vista set a high bar for the computer performance required to run the operating system, which caused many problems from the onset. Even consumers who know little about computers developed certain apprehension towards laptops with pre-installed Vista

20.10.2009
Vice President of Russia's Space Corporation Energia, Vladimir Solovyov, said that Gennady Padalka, the ISS commander, who recently returned from space to Earth was the "president of the international space state." Two or three cosmonauts can be disciplined, but six people is almost a crowd in space. The commander of the crew managed to maintain discipline and friendly relations on board