Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Sep 22, 2016 - Pre-flight activities for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission are ramping up at the Spaceport in French Guiana, with launcher and payload preparations advancing in parallel for the October 4 lif
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 22, 2016 - More than 200 people have crossed the airlock threshold to the International Space Station to conduct research that benefits people on Earth and the agency's Journey to Mars. The microbes they broug
Beijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2016 - China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp aims to double or even triple its annual production capacity by 2025 while without adding new employees - as the State-owned satellite and rocket maker
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 22, 2016 - Several days after its launch, China's Tiangong 2 space laboratory seems to be working well. The uncrewed module has made engine burns and orbital changes, demonstrating its capabilities. Chin
Oxford UK (SPX) Sep 22, 2016 - Plants will play a critical role in the survival of human beings on long-duration space missions, such as a mission to Mars. However, as a paper published in Botany Letters shows, many challenges ne
Beijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2016 - New concept opens range of possibilities for high-speed commercial travel, tourism. Chinese space engineers will join hands to develop a next-generation craft with enormous business potential for co
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 22, 2016 - The International Space Station may bring to mind launch pads in Florida or control rooms in Houston, but humanity's longest continuously inhabited outpost in space also requires near-constant suppo
Washington (AFP) Sept 21, 2016 - During the era of US racial segregation, a handful of black female mathematicians managed to break social barriers and propel the US space agency to new heights - and soon their story will be a major motion picture.
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Sep 21, 2016 - The Orion heat shield, which will protect the Orion crew module during re-entry after the spacecraft's first uncrewed flight test with NASA's Space Launch System rocket, arrived at the agency's Kenn
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 21, 2016 - Russia has moved the preliminary date of the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft's manned launch from September 23 to November 1, Alexander Koptev, a NASA representative with the Russian Mission Control Centre,
Beijing (UPI) Sep 21, 2016 - Keep your head up next year. China's Tiangong-1 space station is expected to re-enter the atmosphere and come crashing back to Earth sometime during 2017.
Washington DC (Sputnik) Sep 21, 2016 - John Hyten, the nominee to head US Strategic Command (STRATCOM), wowed in a congressional testimony on Tuesday to work with lawmakers to end the United States' dependence on Russian-built RD-180 roc
Jiuquan (XNA) Sep 19, 2016 - China has acquired the basic technology to carry out manned lunar missions, chief engineer of China's manned space program Zhou Jianping said Thursday. Compared with current missions, the technology
Beijing (XNA) Sep 19, 2016 - China will share the benefits of the development in its manned space program with all countries, especially developing countries, a space program official said Wednesday. China will also expan
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 19, 2016 - Arianespace announced the promotion of Wiener Kernisan to President of its U.S. subsidiary, Arianespace, Inc., effective September 26, 2016. In this new capacity, Mr. Kernisan will guide Arian
Washington DC (XNA) Sep 19, 2016 - China on Thursday took another significant step towards building a manned space station around 2020 with the successful launch of its second experimental space laboratory, U.S. space experts said.
