Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 10, 2008 - When she docks with the International Space Station on Thursday, South Korea's first astronaut will bring a spicy Asian food menu that puts earlier space fare to shame.
Washington, April 10, 2008 - The U.S. space agency announced the start of a new Web site designed to provide information about its scientific endeavors and achievements.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2008 - Attempts to salvage a wayward GEO comsat have come unstuck in the face of institutional disinterest and an aging patent of questionable validity.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Apr 10, 2008 - The number of spacecraft to be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan will increase 33%, year-on-year, in 2008 to a total of 28, the local mayor said on Tuesday. Baikonur, built in Kazakhstan in the 1950s, was first leased by Russia from Kazakhstan under an agreement signed in 1994 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russian officials have repeatedly said Russia will continue to use the Baikonur launch site until at least 2050.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 10, 2008 - South Korea's first astronaut safely arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, Russian officials said, in a landmark mission for the Asian country's space programme.
Washington, April 10, 2008 - The U.S. space agency says three technologies it developed have been inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame.
Noordwijk, Netherlands, April 10, 2008 - The European Space Agency's new lab at its Netherlands space research center was officially opened Wednesday by Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander.
Cleveland OH (SPX) Apr 10, 2008 - NASA has awarded a contract to Aerojet-General of Sacramento, Calif., to design, develop, fabricate, test and evaluate a workhorse rocket engine using liquid oxygen and liquid methane as propellants. Aerojet will work for 21 months from the effective date of the contract to complete an evaluation of the rocket engine assembly, a 5,500 pound constant-thrust, pressure-fed rocket engine.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Apr 10, 2008 - There's a strange wave phenomenon that's plagued rocket scientists for years, a lurking threat with the power to destroy an engine at almost any time. For decades, scientists have had a limited understanding of how or why it happens because they could not replicate or investigate the problem under controlled laboratory conditions.
Washington (AFP) April 10, 2008 - Researchers have developed a new drug that can protect healthy cells and bone marrow against anti-cancer radiation therapy and maybe even against the effects of a nuclear bomb, a study showed Thursday.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 9, 2008 - South Korea's first astronaut closed in on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and was preparing for docking, an official for Russia's Federal Space Centre said.
Greenbelt, Md., April 9, 2008 - U.S. space agency officials said an air conditioning system malfunctioned Tuesday at the Goddard Space Flight Center, producing a condensation cloud.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 09, 2008 - In just a few months, China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft will lift off on a mission to perform China's first spacewalk. The mission is exciting, but the media silence is deafening. We know almost nothing about the spacesuit, or how the astronaut will be connected to his spacecraft. Trying to work out what's happening behind closed doors requires a bit of deductive reasoning.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 8, 2008 - The first South Korean astronaut blasted off on Tuesday aboard a Russian rocket bound for the International Space Station, in a historic first for her Asian homeland.
Sacramento CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2008 - Aerojet and Orbital Sciences have announced that together the two companies successfully conducted a static firing of the jettison motor, a key component of the Launch Abort System (LAS) for NASA's Orion next generation human spaceflight program. Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the Orion project, which is part of NASA's Constellation Program to send human explorers back to the moon and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the solar system.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 8, 2008 - As South Korea's first astronaut roars into space on Tuesday one group of overlooked fans will be staring up from this remote ex-Soviet territory with special enthusiasm: ethnic Koreans.
