Washington (AFP) Oct 31, 2007 - Two astronauts will try to fix a torn solar panel on the International Space Station during a space walk that has become crucial for the orbiting laboratory's mission, NASA said Wednesday.
Haikou, China (XNA) Oct 30, 2007 - More than 6,000 people will be relocated in China's southern island province of Hainan to make way for a new space launch center. Mayor Yan Zheng of Wenchang city, on Hainan's northeastern coast, said at a meeting on land acquisition on Monday that 1,200 hectares would be obtained for the center. The city's Party chief, Xie Mingzhong, promised they would properly handle issues concerning those to be resettled, such as employment, medical care and education.
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2007 - NASA scientists were Tuesday examining the damage to a panel on a solar antenna on the International Space Station which ripped as it was repositioned by the crew of the shuttle Discovery.
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2007 - NASA said on Tuesday it would extend the space shuttle Discovery's mission by one day to allow for a closer inspection of a flawed rotary joint that turns the solar arrays aboard the International Space Station.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2007 - I am high over the skies of New Mexico wondering what portion of the $2 million dollar combined Northrop Gruman Lunar Lander and NASA Centennial challenge monies is being awarded right this minute on the ground directly below me as I fly overhead. On Friday at the X-prize CEO Summit luncheon event, John Carmack, co-founder of id Software, the company who brought the world, the game Doom and Quake, now brings us Armadillo aerospace and his company's impressive Pixel vehicle as well as the sister craft Texel.
Paris (AFP) Oct 30, 2007 - Fifty years ago Saturday, a perky-eared mutt named Laika, scooped up from the streets of Moscow, became the first earthling to breach our planet's atmosphere and enter space.
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 30, 2007 - ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson were the first astronauts to enter the newest addition to the International Space Station after opening Harmony's hatch at 14:24 CEST (12:24 UT) today. It's a pleasure to be here in this very beautiful piece of hardware, said Nespoli, during a short ceremony to mark the occasion. I would like to thank everybody who worked hard in making this possible and allowing the Space Station to be built even further.
Moscow (UPI) Oct 29, 2007 - What is most appealing about Oriental martial arts is the precise manner in which a set mission is accomplished, with an almost total lack of publicity. (United Press International's Outside View commentaries are written by outside contributors who specialize in a variety of important issues. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of United Press International. In the interests of creating an open forum, original submissions are invited.)
Oklahoma City OK (SPX) Oct 29, 2007 - Rocketplane Global, Inc. has finalized significant changes to their suborbital vehicle the Rocketplane XP. The changes are focused at making the vehicle more responsive to the emerging sub-orbital tourism market and also represent refinements to the engineering design.
Washington (AFP) Oct 29, 2007 - The US shuttle Discovery will likely stay in orbit a day longer than planned to give astronauts time to examine a mechanical glitch on the International Space Station, NASA said Monday.
Beijing (AFP) Oct 29, 2007 - China announced Monday it would build its fourth space launch centre, just a week after it fired off its first lunar orbiter.
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2007 - US astronauts completed the second of five spacewalks Sunday, shifting around a key piece of equipment but also finding a problem with mechanisms supporting an energy unit at the International Space Station.
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2007 - US astronauts completed the second of five spacewalks Sunday, beginning the relocation of a key supporting truss but also detecting a problem with one of the mechanisms supporting an key energy unit of the International Space Station.
Beijing (XNA) Oct 28, 2007 - All the systems of China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 are in good conditions with the high energy solar particle detector and the low energy ion detector functioning properly on Saturday, according to the moon probe team.
Washington (AFP) Oct 27, 2007 - Astronauts entered a newly delivered International Space Station module for the first time Saturday as their colleagues prepared for a second spacewalk of the mission.
Beijing (AFP) Oct 26, 2007 - Seven Chinese have applied to become space tourists on a planned commercial flight in the United States in 2009, state media reported Friday.
