Washington (AFP) July 23, 2019 - A new spacecraft's solar sail successfully deployed Tuesday one month after launch, as it journeys around earth carrying a small satellite.
Washington (AFP) July 23, 2019 - NASA's first flight director Chris Kraft, who played a critical role in the American space race, has died just days after 50th anniversary celebrations for the first Moon landing, the agency said.
Washington DC (AFNS) Jul 22, 2019 - What's the first thought or word that comes to your mind when you hear Apollo 11? Is it NASA, moon landing, Armstrong or Aldrin? While all of those are perfectly logical and correct answers, t
Washington (UPI) Jul 22, 2019 - LightSail 2, a CubeSat developed by the Planetary Society, is preparing to deploy its solar sails. The miniature satellite, roughly the size of a toaster, will unfurl its sails at approximately 8:22 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 22, 2019 - Astronauts who exercised regularly during their missions and received intravenous saline fluids upon returning to Earth did not experience orthostatic hypotension, the drop in blood pressure caused
Paris (AFP) July 22, 2019 - A French inventor aims to soar across the English Channel this week on a jet-powered flyboard, despite authorities warning the stunt is a danger to shipping.
Washington (AFP) July 22, 2019 - US space agency NASA on Monday asked American aerospace companies to offer detailed ideas for vehicles that could bring two astronauts to the Moon by 2024, an American objective that was reconfirmed on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) July 20, 2019 - US, Italian and Russian astronauts blasted into space Saturday, headed for the International Space Station, in a launch coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Paris (AFP) July 20, 2019 - From the Soviet Union's pioneering satellite to the first man on the Moon 50 years ago, here are 10 key dates in space exploration.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) July 20, 2019 - US, Italian and Russian astronauts are set to blast off into space Saturday in a launch coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Washington (AFP) July 19, 2019 - President Donald Trump welcomed surviving Apollo 11 crew members Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the White House Friday, using the occasion to tell his space chief he would prefer to go straight to Mars without returning to the Moon.
Beijing (AFP) July 19, 2019 - China's Tiangong-2 space lab successfully re-entered the Earth's atmosphere Friday under controlled conditions, completing the latest round of experiments in Beijing's ambitious space programme.
Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 19, 2019 - Space engineer Pablo de Leon has designed two spacesuit prototypes for the Moon and for Mars, and knows how long development takes.
New Delhi (AFP) July 18, 2019 - India will make a new bid to launch a landmark mission to the Moon on Monday, a week after aborting lift-off at the last minute because of a fuel leak, officials said.
Huntsville, United States (AFP) July 18, 2019 - It's not hard to find schnitzel, a quintessential German dish of breaded cutlets, in Huntsville Alabama, the heart of America's Deep South.
Huntsville, United States (AFP) July 18, 2019 - Wernher von Braun was the rocket engineer who designed the Nazi's dreaded V-2 missile that rained death on Allied cities in World War II, and later the visionary architect behind the Apollo program that put man on the Moon.
