Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 10, 2013 - Fueling has been completed at the Spaceport in French Guiana for Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), readying it for a planned June launch with Arianespace's workhorse Ariane 5 on an I
Moscow (AFP) May 10, 2013 - The International Space Station crew Friday were preparing for an emergency spacewalk to fix a very serious leak of ammonia from the orbiting laboratory's power system seeping into space.
Washington DC (SPX) May 10, 2013 - NASA has awarded a contract to J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., to modify the mobile launcher that will enable the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket to send huma
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) May 08, 2013 - X-51A WaveRider unmanned hypersonic vehicle achieved the longest air-breathing, scramjet-powered hypersonic flight in history May 1, flying for three and a half minutes on scramjet power at a top sp
Arlington VA (SPX) May 08, 2013 - In 2015, NASA, for the first time, will fly a space mission utilizing a radically different propellant-one which has reduced toxicity and is environmentally benign. This energetic ionic liquid, or E
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 08, 2013 - The launch of Russia's new Angara carrier rocket has been delayed by at least a year, Defense Ministry officials said on Monday. The light-class Angara is to be launched in mid-2014 and its he
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 07, 2013 - The second flight of ESA's newest launch vehicle has been completed from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Two Earth observation satellites, ESA's Proba-V and Vietnam's VNREDSat 1A, were
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 07, 2013 - Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Monday it has reached an agreement with US-based Space Adventures Ltd. company to proceed with the plans to put British singer Sarah Brightman on a space flig
Yuma AZ (SPX) May 07, 2013 - A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft landed safely during a simulation of two types of parachute failures Wednesday, May 1. In the test, conducted in Yuma, Ariz., the mock capsule was traveling
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 07, 2013 - The world is changing. As greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, global temperatures are on the rise. Sea levels inch upward as polar ice retreats. Crops are growing in new places. The
Moscow (Voice of Russia) May 07, 2013 - More and more private companies are now making suggestions to tourists to become cosmonauts and visit the Earth's orbit. Specialists say though that full-scale space flights are out of the question
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 06, 2013 - A NASA sounding rocket supporting a study of ionosphere and its impact on radio transmissions was launched at 3:38 a.m. EDT, May 1 from Roi-Namur, Republic of the Marshall Islands. The Terrier-Orion
London, UK (SPX) May 06, 2013 - The Sun and our neighboring planet Mars are two destinations that the UK and US will be exploring together in the coming years, following recent agreements for collaboration on three big space proje
Paris (AFP) May 4, 2013 - The launch Saturday of Europe's lightweight rocket, Vega, from Kourou in French Guiana was put off until an unspecified date because of poor weather conditions at the space base, the European Space Agency said.
Oxnard, Calif. (UPI) May 3, 2013 - The final flight of the X-51A Waverider test program saw the scramjet aircraft reach Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Air Force said Friday.
Houston TX (SPX) May 03, 2013 - Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $166.8 million contract option from NASA for facilities development and operations at Johnson Space Center that support human spaceflight. The one-year contr
