Prague (AFP) Nov 19, 2013 - Czech universities and firms have received the go-ahead to conduct scientific research on board an American space tourism aircraft, the Czech Space Office (CSO) said Tuesday.
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2013 - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Wednesday hailed the success of the agency's public-private partnership with American companies to resupply the International Space Station and announced the next p
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 18, 2013 - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has chosen Arianespace to launch its GSAT 15 and GSAT 16 telecommunications satellites. The two satellites will be launched by Ariane 5 launch veh
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - China's upcoming Chang'e-3 Moon mission is a major step in their rapidly advancing space program. A four-legged lander will touch down and release a six-wheeled rover onto the Moon in December. That
London (UPI) Nov 14, 2013 - Britain needs a national space program, sufficiently funded and properly coordinated, a report by a government/industry planning group says.
Washington (AFP) Nov 12, 2013 - The first test mission of a new deep space capsule that could one day take humans to Mars is on track for September 2014, the US space agency said Tuesday.
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2013 - Testing at the Lockheed Martin Sunnyvale facility in California using a series of precisely-timed, explosive charges and mechanisms, proved the Orion spacecraft can successfully jettison its protect
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 11, 2013 - Payload preparations for Arianespace's next heavy-lift mission are ready to move into gear as the ASTRA 5B satellite has arrived in French Guiana. ASTRA 5B - which Arianespace will launch for
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 11, 2013 - The three massive panels protecting a test version of NASA's Orion multipurpose crew vehicle successfully fell away from the spacecraft Wednesday in a test of a system that will protect Orion during
Moscow (AFP) Nov 09, 2013 - Two cosmonauts took the Olympic torch - unlit - for a spacewalk Saturday in a historic showcasing of Russia's Sochi Winter Olympic Games in three months' time.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 08, 2013 - The six-person Expedition 37 crew aboard the orbiting International Space Station supported a variety of research activities Wednesday, reviewed plans for an upcoming spacewalk and prepared for Thur
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Nov 07, 2013 - Russia on Thursday launched into space a trio of Russian, Japanese and US astronauts carrying an unlit Olympic torch that will for the first time be taken on a spacewalk to mark the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2013 - NASA has selected nine research teams from seven states for a new institute that will bring researchers together in a collaborative virtual setting to focus on questions concerning space science and
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 07, 2013 - Think about a time you've been a passenger in a car and stuck your hand out the window. As your speed increases, so do the vibrations in your hand. Trying to keep those fingers steady as the wind wh
Orlando FL (SPX) Nov 07, 2013 - UCF will be home to NASA's Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (referred to as CLASS) beginning later this year, thanks to a $6 million grant awarded this week to UCF physics professor Dan
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 06, 2013 - We may not be driving flying cars to work yet, but that doesn't mean we don't have a lot to be excited about from technology advances related to the space age. Instead of zipping past traffic jams,
