Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Sep 23, 2013 - Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft is one step closer to liftoff after a gauntlet of test firings of its steering jets at White Sands Space Harbor in Las Cruces, N.M. Boeing and Aerojet Rocketdyne re
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 23, 2013 - Environmental factors, like wind gusts, can factor into an aircraft's performance. NASA's new heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System (SLS), is no exception when it comes to Mother Nature
Washington (AFP) Sept 22, 2013 - The unmanned Cygnus cargo vessel, scheduled to arrive Sunday morning at the International Space Station, has been delayed by at least 48 hours due to a software problem, NASA said.
Galveston, Texas (UPI) Sep 20, 2013 - If you're willing to lie down on the job, NASA may have something for you - a research study in which subjects lie in bed for 70 days.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 19, 2013 - The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised on Sunday by nearly one kilometer to ensure safe docking of a Russian spacecraft with new crew members, a spokesman for the Russian
Tehran (XNA) Sep 19, 2013 - Iran plans to send its second monkey into space onboard the home-made rocket named Pishgam ( Pioneer) II within 45 days, Iran Space Agency director Hamid Fazeli was quoted as saying by local media o
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Sep 19, 2013 - The problems with the Proton-M booster of the kind that crashed shortly after lift-off from Baikonur on July 2 have been fixed, and the system can be cleared for use again. Deputy Prime Minist
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 19, 2013 - New data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, which has been hurtling away from the Sun since it was launched in 1977, indicates that the spacecraft has indeed left the comfort of the heliosphere-the b
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 19, 2013 - When the crew of Shenzhou 10 departed the Tiangong 1 space laboratory in June, Chinese officials declared that Tiangong was now a spacecraft on death row. China's first space laboratory had three mo
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (Voice of Russia) Sep 19, 2013 - The fourth stage of the decontamination effort was completed on Thursday evening in the area at the Baikonur cosmodrome where the wreckage of a Proton-M carrier rocket fell after an abortive launch
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 19, 2013 - Commercial, civilian and military satellites provide crucial real-time information essential to providing strategic national security advantages to the United States. The current generation of satel
Washington (AFP) Sept 18, 2013 - Orbital Sciences Corp launched the first flight of its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship Wednesday to the International Space Station, as NASA forges ahead with its plan to privatize US space missions.
Iowa City IA (SPX) Sep 18, 2013 - University of Iowa space physicist Don Gurnett says there is solid evidence that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to reach interstellar space, more than 11 billion mil
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 18, 2013 - On Sept. 12, scientists announced that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft had gone where no man or machine has gone before: beyond the solar system, and into interstellar space. According to data from the
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Sep 17, 2013 - Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and Green Bank Telescope (GBT) spotted the faint radio glow from NASA's famed Voyager 1 spacecraft - the mo
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 17, 2013 - In the iconic comic-book series, Superman, the main character, Clark Kent, looks like your average Joe. Under the ruse of a three-piece suit and glasses, Kent's true identity is Superman, who tr
