Shanghai (AFP) March 15, 2016 - Chinese insurance giant Anbang, virtually unknown abroad before buying New York's historic Waldorf Astoria hotel, is bidding nearly $20 billion to become an international hotelier - raising questions over why it wants to enter the hospitality business, and over its murky shareholding structure.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 15, 2016 - NASA has demonstrated the success of advanced technology for making precise measurements of Earth's orientation and rotation - information that helps provide a foundation for navigation of all space
New Delhi (IANS) Mar 15, 2016 - India will test a small aeroplane-shaped vehicle this year as part of its programme to develop a reusable space launch vehicle, a senior official of Indian Space Research Organisation said. W
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Mar 15, 2016 - The Soyuz 2-1B carrier rocket with the Resurs-P No.3 remote-sensing satellite was successfully launched from Baikonur on Sunday, which was the second attempt, a spokesman to the Russian Space Agency
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 15, 2016 - On Thursday, March 10, 2016 astronauts on the International Space Station logged their 1,000th educational contact with the ground. NASA astronaut Tim Kopra answered questions posed by the North Dak
Montreal (AFP) March 15, 2016 - The UN aviation agency called Tuesday for regulations on space travel to be enacted within five years in order to bolster a burgeoning space tourism and transportation sector.
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 15, 2016 - The contract between the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Russia's space agency Roscosmos on launching US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) is curren
Washington DC (Sputnik) Mar 15, 2016 - The launch of the Dragon free-flying spacecraft to the International Space Station has been postponed until April, Administrator of US National Aeronautics and Space Administration Charles Bolden sa
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2016 - For decades, U.S. national security was ensured in large part by a simple advantage: a near-monopoly on access to the most advanced technologies. Increasingly, however, off-the-shelf equipment devel
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2016 - When NASA's Technology Transfer Program launched Startup NASA, the chief goal was to help new companies hold on to their cash. The majority of NASA licenses are executed by small businesses, and ca
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2016 - The explosive growth of global digital connectivity has opened new possibilities for designing and conducting social science research. Once limited by practical constraints to experiments involving
Luxembourg (SPX) Mar 14, 2016 - SES S.A. announced Friday the signature of contracts, in the presence of Luxembourg's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy Etienne Schneider, for the next phase of the development of a
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 13, 2016 - In November 2000, NASA began a run of 15 years of continuous human presence in orbit on the International Space Station. Four months later, on March 8, 2001, a team of people at NASA's Marshall Spac
Cleveland OH (SPX) Mar 13, 2016 - Dr. Mark Rodefeld knows the hearts of children. As a pediatric heart surgeon at Indiana University, he's spent decades fixing them. One particular heart problem has consumed much of his research and
Miami (AFP) March 12, 2016 - Astronaut Scott Kelly will retire from NASA next month, after spending nearly a year in space and setting a record for the most cumulative days in space of any American, the US space agency said.
Berlin (AFP) March 11, 2016 - Greece, long loved by tourists for its white-washed chapels, sun-kissed islands and turquoise Mediterranean seas, is trying to shake its new image as Europe's frontline state in the migrant crisis.
