Beijing (XNA) Jun 12, 2017 - China is working on reusable launch vehicles and has achieved progress in some key areas, a carrier rocket official said Thursday. The processes under development include parachute-landing and
Beijing (XNA) Jun 12, 2017 - China will open its space station to scientists worldwide after the station is completed around 2022, according to a Chinese space expert. Wei Chuanfeng, a researcher at the Institute of Manne
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 12, 2017 - The International Space Station has become a genuinely global project proving that despite political differences, economic problems and social changes countries can work in concert sharing experienc
Medford MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2017 - Flatworms that spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station are helping researchers led by Tufts University scientists to study how an absence of normal gravity and geomagnetic fields can
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 09, 2017 - A wide variety of research relies on growing cells in culture on Earth, but handling these cells is challenging. With better techniques, scientists hope to reduce loss of cells from culture media, c
Beijing (XNA) Jun 09, 2017 - China will offer more opportunities for private companies to participate in lunar and Mars exploration, a space exploration official said. Tian Yulong, secretary general of the China National
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 09, 2017 - A Russian Proton rocket with a US telecom satellite Echostar-21 was successfully launched early Thursday from the Baikonur spaceport in southern Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said.
Beijing (XNA) Jun 08, 2017 - China's Chang'e 5 lunar probe is expected to land in the Mons Rumker region, and to take moon samples back to earth at the end of the year, according to a Chinese space official. Liu Jizhong,
Beijing (XNA) Jun 08, 2017 - China will launch at least four manned missions with Shenzhou spacecraft before the end of 2022 to build a space station, according to a senior space official. Yang Liwei, deputy head of the C
Beijing (XNA) Jun 08, 2017 - China will develop and launch a two-meter-caliber space telescope, which will share the same orbit with the country's future space station, said Yang Liwei, deputy director of China Manned Space Age
Moscow (AFP) June 8, 2017 - Russia on Thursday sent into space a Proton rocket carrying a US telecom satellite, Echostar-21, the first launch in a year after an engine glitch sparked a probe into manufacturing flaws.
Beijing (XNA) Jun 08, 2017 - China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, one of the nation's major space contractors, said on Tuesday it is developing reusable spacecraft capable of taking off and landing at airports. Liu
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2017 - NASA has selected Dynetics, Inc. of Huntsville, Alabama, to develop and build a universal stage adapter for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The adapter will connect NASA's Orion space
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 07, 2017 - NASA's recent announcement of an additional crew member to the International Space Station, which will effectively double the amount of science data acquired from the orbiting laboratory, means a lo
Beijing (Sputnik) Jun 07, 2017 - Sergey Krikalev stated that the cooperation between Russia's Roscosmos space corporation and NASA is going normally and successfully. Russia's Roscosmos space corporation and NASA continue suc
Miami (AFP) June 7, 2017 - Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday hailed 12 new NASA astronauts as the best of us, after they were selected from a record-breaking pool of more than 18,000 applicants.
