Washington (AFP) Aug 26, 2007 - NASA found tiny cracks in the insulation on fuel tanks due to be installed on two space shuttles scheduled for missions this year, the US space agency said on Sunday.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 24, 2007 - Future NASA astronauts who land on the moon will owe their success in part to the men and women of the Gulf Coast, who are already at work on the next generation of space travel. NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans both will have critical roles in the Constellation Program, which aims to land astronauts on the moon by the end of the next decade.
Korolev, Russia (SPX) Aug 23, 2007 - Today is the 50th anniversary of the first successful launch of R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile developed at the Special Design Bureau No.1 (now S.P.Korolev RSC Energia). The first long-range two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile in our country was intended for delivering a warhead to any point on the territory of a potential enemy.
Nashville TN (SPX) Aug 22, 2007 - Combine a mechanical arm with a miniature rocket motor: The result is a prosthetic device that is the closest thing yet to a bionic arm. A prototype of this radical design has been successfully developed and tested by a team of mechanical engineers at Vanderbilt University as part of a $30 million federal program to develop advanced prosthetic devices.
Auburn Hills MI (SPX) Aug 22, 2007 - Dassault Systemes, a leading supplier of 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, reports that its DELMIA software is helping Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. (LMSSC) work more closely with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The focus of their efforts is on mockups for the crew exploration vehicle to be used in the Orion orbital and moon-landing missions.
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 22, 2007 - Space Shuttle Endeavour returned home Tuesday following a two-week mission that delivered more than 740 Boeing flight hardware components to the International Space Station. The hardware, including the Starboard 5 (S5) truss element, will increase available power for space station systems. This was a very busy mission, and the Boeing Space Exploration team has worked very hard to support NASA and the United Space Alliance, said Brewster Shaw, vice president and general manager of Boeing Space Exploration.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 21, 2007 - US shuttle Endeavour returned safely to Earth Tuesday, despite damage to its underside, after a 13-day mission in which the first teacher in space gave lessons to children back home.
NASA's two venerable Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they head toward interstellar space.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 21, 2007 - US space shuttle Endeavour landed safely back on Earth Tuesday after a two-week mission to the orbiting International Space Station.
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 21, 2007 - Mission managers announced Monday that Space Shuttle Endeavour is cleared for landing. The decision came after a thorough review of imagery and data collected during late inspection of the orbiter on Sunday. In space, the seven-member STS-118 crew prepared for its return to Earth aboard Endeavour after a successful stay at the International Space Station.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 21, 2007 - NASA looked cautiously to its next mission due in October after the US shuttle Endeavour returned safely to Earth Tuesday despite damage to its underside.
Zhukovsky, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2007 - The Russian and European space agencies will develop a manned transport spaceship for flights to the International Space Station, the Moon and Mars, the head of the Russian agency said Tuesday. We agreed today with Jean-Jacques Dordain, the head of the European Space Agency, to form a working group to deal with developing a piloted transport system to fly to the International Space Station, the Moon and Mars, Anatoly Perminov said after talks with Dordain on the sidelines of the MAKS-2007 air show in Zhukovsky, near Moscow.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 20, 2007 - NASA cleared the shuttle Endeavour for landing on Tuesday, after a two-week mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was cut short 24 hours by menacing Hurricane Dean.
Greenbelt MA (SPX) Aug 20, 2007 - Ancient explorers set sail expecting to encounter dragons on the world's unknown oceans. NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are searching for dragons of a different sort as they enter the boundary of our solar system - cosmic dragons that breathe a strange fire of high-speed atomic fragments called cosmic rays.
Beijing (SPX) Aug 20, 2007 - China's lunar probe program has no purpose other than scientific achievement, and it is not competing with any other country, a senior official said on Thursday. Japan's adjustment of its lunar launch date will not influence China's launch plan, Hao Xifan, deputy director of the Lunar Exploration Center of the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense, said in an online interview yesterday.
Washington (AFP) Aug 19, 2007 - The US space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday for its return trip to Earth, one day earlier than scheduled to avoid any disruptions from Hurricane Dean.
