Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Aug 21, 2008 - The U.S. space agency's planned partial reopening of the Kennedy Space Center was delayed Thursday because of slow-moving Tropical Storm Fay.
Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 - Andrews Space has announced that it has signed a contract with Aerojet of Sacramento, CA to develop aft propulsion system controllers for Bigelow's Sundancer spacecraft.
Wallops Island VA (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 - Two NASA hypersonic experiment payloads are scheduled for launch no earlier than Aug. 21 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia atop a two-stage suborbital rocket developed by Alliant Techsystems, also known as ATK, of Salt Lake City.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 - Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed a series of tests on a key component of the J-2X engine. The J-2X powers the upper stage of the Ares I rocket, which will launch human explorers to the International Space Station and to the moon.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 - Inmarsat (has confirmed the successful launch and acquisition of the third Inmarsat-4 satellite. The satellite was launched on a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:43pm BST on 18 August (4:43am 19th August, local time).
Washington (AFP) Aug 20, 2008 - NASA say they will use shock-absorbers similar to those used in cars to fix a problem with heavy vibrations in the new Ares rocket, to give stronauts inside the Orion crew capsule a smoother ride.
San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 - Like many Americans coming of age during the time of the Apollo missions, Morris Jarvis dreamed of someday blasting off into space. As a child he sat glued to the television set as man walked on the moon, and he later studied aerospace engineering in college.
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 - The Coalition for Space Exploration, the leading collaboration of space industry businesses and advocacy groups, announced today the release of a statement by Guion Guy Bluford, a board member of the Coalition.
Washington (AFP) Aug 19, 2008 - An Iranian missile test aimed at putting a dummy satellite into orbit failed, a US defense official said Tuesday.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 19, 2008 - The International Space Station's orbit has been adjusted to prepare for the docking of the Progress M-65 cargo module, due to be launched September 10, Russia's Mission Control Center said Wednesday.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 18, 2008 - NASA has concluded that corrective action is appropriate in the Government Accountability Office bid protest of Exploration Systems and Technology, Inc.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 18, 2008 - After thoroughly reviewing an option to accelerate the upcoming launch dates of space shuttle Atlantis and Endeavour by a few days, shuttle program managers decided Thursday to keep the current target launch dates.
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 18, 2008 - As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and then on to Mars, psychologists are exploring the challenges astronauts will face on missions that will be much longer and more demanding than previous space flights.
Caracas (AFP) Aug 18, 2008 - China is to launch Venezuela's first satellite in November which will serve to relay telecommunications data and television signals over Latin America, President Hugo Chavez said.
Tehran (AFP) Aug 18, 2008 - Iran said on Monday that a home-built rocket sent into space in a move that triggered US concern over possible military use will be able to take a satellite into low orbit around the earth.
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 18, 2008 - Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits.
