Moscow (AFP) Jan 23, 2008 - Russia, whose space programme relies heavily on a base in neighbouring Kazakhstan, is to build its own launch site for manned flights by 2018, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov was quoted as saying Wednesday.
Houston (UPI) Jan 23, 2008 - The U.S. space agency says a survey of its astronauts and flight surgeons reflects high degrees of trust and honesty in the reporting of safety concerns.
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 23, 2008 - With NASA's recent confirmation of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Thursday 7 February, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, of Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, of France, are set to deliver ESA's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station. Atlantis is now scheduled to lift off from launch pad 39-A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida at 14:45 Eastern Standard Time (EST) / 20:45 Central European Time (CET).
Bangalore, India (SPX) Jan 22, 2008 - The Indian Space Research Organization's Antrix Corporation has successfully launched an Israeli spy satellite using its second full-scale commercial mission of the PSLV launcher.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2008 - The Progress M-61 cargo spacecraft, which undocked from the International Space Station last year, will crash into the Pacific on Tuesday evening, a Mission Control center spokesman said on Monday. The spokesman told RIA Novosti that the parts of the craft that do not burn up in the atmosphere will sink in a spacecraft cemetery at 40 longitude in the Pacific.
Madison AL (SPX) Jan 22, 2008 - Americans in Orbit-50 Years have announced plans to re-create the NASA mission in which John Glenn became the first American to Orbit the Earth. Inspired by the 1962 Friendship 7 mission, the plan is to re-create the flight on the 50th anniversary, February 20, 2012. Craig Russell, President of Americans in Orbit-50 Years, stated, This is the first attempt to re-create a manned orbital spaceflight. We plan to launch an astronaut from Cape Canaveral aboard an improved Mercury capsule.
Xi'an, China (XNA) Jan 21, 2008 - China is constructing a civil aerospace center in the Shaanxi Province capital, a further move to step up its industrialization of the sector following the launch of the initial Shanghai base last year.
Mojave, Calif. (UPI) Jan 19, 2008 - Rocket pioneer Burt Ratan's space tourism company has been fined $25,870 for an accident that killed three workers at its test site in Mojave, Calif.
London (UPI) Jan 19, 2008 - British space experts have been given the green light to start building a Star Trek-like engine for a Mercury-bound spacecraft.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 18, 2008 - Russia is to launch two communication satellites in the coming weeks from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a leading Russian space company said on Thursday. The Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said the Proton-M rocket, carrying an Express-AM33 satellite, was on schedule for take-off on January 28.
New Orleans LA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008 - NASA and Louisiana leaders broke ground in December for a $40 million, five-story Research and Development Administration Building at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Participating in the groundbreaking ceremony were Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco; Michael Olivier, Louisiana secretary of economic development; Robert Lightfoot, deputy director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.; and Sheila Cloud, transition director of the Michoud Facility.
Southampton PA (SPX) Jan 17, 2008 - Environmental Tectonics National Aerospace Training and Research Center (NASTAR Center) announced that it has launched its Air and Space Adventure Programs, a series of programs designed to provide realistic flight experiences for astronaut and fighter pilot enthusiasts alike. The NASTAR Center is now offering 2- hour, half-day, full-day, and 2-day combo programs that simulate fast jet flights and space voyages.
Abu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Jan 16, 2008 - The third Geo-mobile satellite of Thuraya Satellite Telecom has successfully been launched by Sea Launch, allowing Thuraya to embark on major expansion plans and provide its cutting-edge mobile satellite services in the Asia-Pacific region in the first quarter of 2008.
Moscow (UPI) Jan 16, 2008 - The Russian defense industry, like any modern institution, plans ahead. Thus four-star Army Gen. Yury Baluyevsky, chief of the General Staff of Russia's armed forces, told a meeting of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, in mid-November 2007 that we have already started creating a new program to last until 2020.
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 16, 2008 - A new station will join ESA's tracking network on 17 January 2008. Located on the Portuguese island of Santa Maria in the Azores, the station will track launches from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, as they pass overhead at 28 000 km per hour.
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Jan 16, 2008 - The U.S. space agency will televise the Astronauts Memorial Foundation's remembrance service honoring space shuttle Columbia's STS-107 crew.
