Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 16, 2021 - Richard Branson won the billionaire space race this week when he boarded his Virgin Galactic spacecraft and became the first space tourist for a few minutes. He got there ahead of Amazon founder J
Washington (AFP) July 15, 2021 - Blue Origin said Thursday an 18-year-old paying customer will fly to space on the company's maiden crewed spaceflight on July 20, becoming the youngest ever astronaut.
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 15, 2021 - The European Space Agency (ESA), as part of its Ariane 6 Competitiveness Improvement Program, has chosen ArianeGroup to develop and build a complementary stage (kick-stage) for Ariane 6, called ASTR
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 - NASA is announcing its 2021 Entrepreneurs Challenge to invite fresh ideas and new participants that will lead to new instruments and technologies with the potential to advance the agency's science m
Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2021 - ESA will enhance the versatility of Europe's Ariane 6 rocket with a kick stage called Astris in a euro 90 m development contract with prime contractor, ArianeGroup. This is part of ESA's strategy t
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 - NASA is leading an effort, working with the Department of Energy (DOE), to advance space nuclear technologies. The government team has selected three reactor design concept proposals for a nuclear t
Orlando FL (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 - Rocket launches and spacecraft landings will be tracked and monitored along with airplane traffic to enhance safety in a new program announced Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 14, 2021 - NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout is tucked away safely inside the agency's powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The solar sailing CubeSat is one of se
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 14, 2021 - China has harvested its first batch of rice grown from seeds that traveled to space on the country's Chang'e-5 lunar probe, officials said Sunday. About 40 grams of seeds made the trip to the
London, UK (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 - The 3.9 million pound grant from the UK Space Agency will support the development of Reaction Engines' ground-breaking SABRE technology, enabling low-carbon air-breathing space access propulsion tec
Ibaraki, Japan (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 - Most kids dream of growing up to be astronauts; but the downside of spending extended amounts of time in low gravity is that astronauts' muscles tend to shrink and weaken through disuse. Now, resear
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 - In 1962 when America was going to the Moon, NASA established Kennedy Space Center in Florida as its Launch Operations Center. This month, the modernized multi-user spaceport marks its 59th anniversa
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 12, 2021 - NASA is moving ahead with plans to help fund a new generation of private space stations in an effort to ensure replacements are ready when the International Space Station shuts down in as little as seven years.
Spaceport America, United States (AFP) July 11, 2021 - He's always dreamed of it, and in 2004 founded his own company to make it happen.
Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2021 - Scuttled listings and share prices hammered by official threats: Beijing has launched a withering and very public assault on some of China's biggest tech names.
Spaceport America, United States (AFP) Jul 11, 2021 - A Virgin Galactic spaceship carrying Richard Branson touched down Sunday after a voyage the British billionaire called an experience of a lifetime. Congratulations to all our wonderful team
