Washington (UPI) Oct 7, 2014 - Two residents of the International Space Station were able stretch their legs on Tuesday as they took a walk outside their cozy confines to fix the station's orbiting laboratory - the first spacewalk in months.
Paris (ESA) Oct 07, 2014 - ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has spent four months in the relative safety of the International Space Station but on Tuesday he will venture into open space with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman on a sev
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2014 - Astronauts Reid Wiseman of NASA and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency will work outside the International Space Station for about 6-1/2 hours Tuesday. The spacewalkers will relocate a fai
Mojave, Calif. (UPI) Oct 7, 2014 - Virgin Galactic - the Richard Branson enterprise aimed at taking civilians to the brink of space aboard a commercial shuttle - successfully launched and landed its SpaceShipTwo Tuesday in an unmanned flight test.
Hampton VA (SPX) Oct 06, 2014 - The big difference in this year's experiment is that we are testing three energy absorbing composite subfloor concepts that should help some of the dummy occupants sustain fewer injuries than they
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 06, 2014 - NASA's new Orion spacecraft and the Delta IV Heavy rocket that will carry it into space are at their penultimate stops in Florida on their path to a December flight test. Orion was moved Sunda
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2014 - In collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG and E) announced that it is testing state-of-the-art technology adapted from NASA
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 06, 2014 - The six-person Expedition 41 crew of the International Space Station was hard at work Wednesday supporting research with down-to-Earth benefits and gearing up for a series of spacewalks to maintain
Paris (AFP) Oct 06, 2014 - The board of directors of French holiday firm Club Med on Monday unanimously recommended that shareholders accept an improved bid from Chinese conglomerate Fosun and its partners.
Mina, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Oct 06, 2014 - Two million Muslim pilgrims began leaving the holy city of Mecca on Monday, concluding the annual hajj during which Saudi leaders lashed out at Islamic extremism.
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 05, 2014 - Virgin Galactic owner Richard Branson says his company might soon be ready to take civilians into space.
Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2014 - When NASA awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX company and Boeing the contract to start bringing astronauts to the International Space Station as early as 2017, the Sierra Nevada Corp. was not happy. They're planning to legally contest NASA's decision to choose those companies, instead of them, so they can one day be part of space missions run by a commercial company.
Bristol, UK (SPX) Oct 03, 2014 - The UK's space activities employs over 100,000 people and contributes nearly Pounds 10 billion to the economy but why bother with space exploration? This question will be debated by a panel includi
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 03, 2014 - The Dream Chaser, a reusable crewed space shuttle currently under development by Sierra Nevada Corporation, may one day carry people into space with the help of Stratolaunch's massive carrier plane,
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 03, 2014 - The race to find answers for cancer is not a sprint, but a marathon. When you participate in charity runs for yourself or your loved ones, it is in pursuit of improved treatments and hopefully a cur
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 01, 2014 - Waypoint 2 Space (Waypoint) has announced a partnership with Final Frontier Design (FFD) that will integrate FFD space suit designs with Waypoint's innovative EVA training systems in support of Wayp
