Longueuil, Canada (SPX) Apr 01, 2008 - The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry Canada and the Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), announced at Agency headquarters that the CSA will begin a national astronaut recruitment campaign at the end of May 2008, to select astronauts to join its Canadian Astronaut Corps.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 01, 2008 - The launch of a modified Zenit rocket to put an Israeli communications satellite into orbit has been scheduled for April 24, Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Monday. Russia started preparations for the launch of a Zenit-3SLB rocket with a DM-SLB booster and Israeli AMOS-3 satellite on board from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in October last year.
Paris (AFP) March 31, 2008 - Europe's brand-new robot space freighter inched towards the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday as mission controllers practised emergency manoeuvres ahead of a maiden linkup on Thursday.
Students at Colorado School of Mines and the University of Hawai`i at Hilo will work together on space research at both campuses and at a new international…
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 31, 2008 - NASA and United Space Alliance engineers and technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center tested procedures they will rely on to handle and load the propellant tanks that will be used on the roll control system of the Ares I. The latest testing on the new Ares I rocket brought together components from an Air Force missile program with support equipment invented for handling space shuttle parts.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2008 - Scientists at Harvard University have found that a common class of freshwater invertebrate animals called bdelloid rotifers are extraordinarily resistant to ionizing radiation, surviving and continuing to reproduce after doses of gamma radiation much greater than that tolerated by any other animal species studied to date.
McGregor TX (SPX) Mar 31, 2008 - Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) conducted the first three-engine firing of its Falcon 9 medium to heavy lift rocket at its Texas Test Facility outside McGregor, on March 8, 2008. At full power the engines generated over 270,000 pounds of force, and consumed 1,050 lbs of fuel and liquid oxygen per second.
San Diego, CA (SPX) Mar 28, 2008 - Odyssey Moon has announced that it has reached a commercial launch services agreement with Celestis. The agreement provides for payload capacity aboard Odyssey Moon's lunar missions for placing memorial flight capsules and modules in lunar orbit or on the Moon.
Moscow (AFP) March 27, 2008 - A German reconnaissance satellite successfully took off from the Plesetsk base in northern Russia Thursday on board a Kosmos rocket, a Russian space official told Interfax news agency.
Brasilia, Brazil (XNA) Mar 27, 2008 - The newly sworn-in head of the Brazilian Space Agency (BSA) Carlos Ganem said Tuesday that Brazil cherishes the ties with China and will deepen cooperation with China in the field of space technology. Ganem made the remarks during his inauguration ceremony. A technical expert who engaged in the first negotiations on the China-Brazil satellite cooperation program, he said the project is an excellent example of bilateral cooperation.
Tokyo (AFP) March 27, 2008 - Japan on Thursday hailed a new era in its space research as the US shuttle Endeavour returned to Earth after setting up the first part of Japan's micro-gravity laboratory.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 27, 2008 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn's moon Enceladus during a close flyby on March 12. Scientists are amazed that this tiny moon is so active, hot and brimming with water vapor and organic chemicals.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 27, 2008 - A small California aerospace company today unveiled a new suborbital spaceship that will provide affordable front-seat rides to the edge of space for the millions of people who want to buy a ticket. The company, XCOR Aerospace, of Mojave, CA, announced that its two-seat Lynx suborbital spaceship will carry people or payloads to where they will experience weightlessness and see the stars above and the Earth and its atmosphere below.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) March 27, 2008 - Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew are home after carrying Japan's maiden space laboratory and a Canadian repair robot to the International Space Station on a record-setting mission.
Beijing (XNA) Mar 27, 2008 - China's State Council, the cabinet, has approved the country's second-phase lunar probe program, the Beijing Times reported on Wednesday. It cited Luan Enjie, the director-in-chief of the China Moon-orbiting Program. We are organizing people to make detailed plans for the program, Luan told a conference on Tuesday.
Tokyo (AFP) March 26, 2008 - A Japanese defence ministry think-tank has warned that China's space programme could pose a military threat to other countries.
