Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 18, 2007 - The landing of the 14th Expedition crew has been postponed for one day to avoid early spring flooding on the Kazakh steppe, a Russian space official said Tuesday.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 18, 2007 - Russia has successfully launched a Dnepr carrier rocket, the first since the failure in late July 2006, and put 16 foreign satellites into orbit, the Federal Space Agency said Tuesday.
Edwards, CA (SPX) Apr 18, 2007 - NASA has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Air Force to support abort flight test requirements for the Orion Project. The Air Force has contracted with Orbital Sciences Corp. of Chandler, Ariz., to provide launch services for the flight tests.
Preston UK (SPX) Apr 17, 2007 - For four days every month the Moon passes through the magnetic field of the Earth and parts of the lunar surface are charged with static electricity. Next week Dr Mike Hapgood of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory will present a model at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, which suggests that this charging may increase after the year 2012 and become an important issue for future lunar explorers.
St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 16, 2007 - Boeing has submitted its final cost volume bid to NASA for production of the Ares I crew launch vehicle upper stage. The Boeing-led team provided a tailored proposal designed to meet or exceed NASA requirements by leveraging best-of-industry suppliers, including several with advanced technology development contracts on critical Ares I systems.
SpaceX completed the primary structure for the Falcon 9 first stage tank. This tank will be shipped to our Texas Test Facility for proof testing, integration of the propulsion system, and a full stage firing to occur later this year.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 16, 2007 - NASA's Kennedy Space Center on April 17 will host the flight of a privately operated F-104 jet aircraft on the first in a series of pathfinder test missions from the space shuttle runway. Starfighters Inc. of Clearwater, Fla., will perform the flights to help in assessing suborbital space launch trajectories from the Shuttle Landing Facility and paving the way for future commercial space tourism and research flights from the facility.
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 16, 2007 - The crew members aboard the International Space Station were busy this week with handover operations from the Expedition 14 residents to the newly arrived Expedition 15 crew.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2007 - Merlin International announced that it has secured a contract under the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) IV Program. The Merlin SEWP IV award is an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) and has a potential maximum value of $5.6 billion during a seven-year period. The NASA SEWP IV program is the fourth iteration of the original contract vehicle introduced in 1993.
Washington (UPI) April 16, 2007 - Spring has arrived and with it the desire for a good tan, but getting one won't be so guilt-free this year. Half of all states have passed legislation that requires indoor tanning salons to notify their customers tanning causes skin cancer, a disease affecting one out of every five Americans.
Dulles VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2007 - Orbital Sciences has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Air Force Space Development and Test Wing (SDTW) to design and build the next-generation NASA Orion Abort Test Booster (ATB).
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 13, 2007 - A Soyuz-FG carrier rocket is scheduled to lift off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on May 20 to put four U.S. Globalstar satellites into orbit, the Russian space agency said Wednesday.
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 13, 2007 - The U.S. Air Force (USAF) announced at the 23rd National Space Symposium that it has awarded XCOR Aerospace a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contract to design and analyze a rocket-powered vehicle, which will reach 200,000 feet altitude and supersonic speeds. The contract is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Air Vehicle Directorate's Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Access Mission.
India's space agency is to launch an Italian satellite by a home-built rocket this month, its first foreign commercial contract from an overseas customer, a spokesman said Thursday.
Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2007 - The world's richest man, Bill Gates, is considering a flight into space, a Russian cosmonaut said from the International Space Station Wednesday, citing Gates' colleague and space tourist Charles Simonyi.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Apr 11, 2007 - International Launch Services (ILS) successfully placed the Anik F3 satellite into orbit today with a Russian Khrunichev-built Proton Breeze M rocket. The vehicle lifted off from Pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 4:54 a.m. local time (6:54 p.m. Monday EDT, 22:54 Monday GMT).
