Moscow (UPI) Feb 27, 2013 - Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station will turn schoolteacher, conducting a lesson from space for Russian students, officials said.
Washington (UPI) Feb 27, 2013 - The White House says major government agencies must make taxpayer-funded research freely available to the public within 12 months after publication.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 27, 2013 - The Spaceport's ZLV launch site in French Guiana is busy with activity as the second Vega undergoes its assembly for a mission scheduled in April. Build-up of the smallest member in Arianespace's la
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2013 - As part of the Obama Administration's recognition of the critical role that space technology and innovation will play in enabling both future space missions and bettering life here on Earth, NASA Ad
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2013 - Not all world-class choreographers design for principal dancers of the American Ballet Theater or the Marinsky Ballet, both known for extreme perfectionism; some, who are actually engineers, work wi
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2013 - NASA has released a summary report on findings from a panel that investigated the unsuccessful 2011 launch of the agency's Glory spacecraft. The satellite, designed to improve our understandin
New Delhi (UPI) Feb 26, 2013 - India, hoping to become the fourth nation to send humans into space, has unveiled a key element in the effort, an indigenously manufactured astronaut capsule.
Wallops Island VA (SPX) Feb 26, 2013 - NASA commercial partner Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Va., successfully conducted an engine test of its Antares rocket Friday, February 22, at the nation's newest launch pad. The company fired d
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Feb 26, 2013 - NASA and its international partners are targeting Friday, March 1, as the launch date for the next cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2013 - Ever wonder what it's like to control a camera on the International Space Station? More than 30,000 students found out in late January as part of the Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle school studen
Sriharikota, India (IANS) Feb 26, 2013 - An Indian rocket Monday evening successfully placed in orbit seven satellites - the Indo-French satellite SARAL, the world's first smart phone-operated nano satellite, a space telescope satellite an
Arlington VA (SPX) Feb 26, 2013 - ATK has delivered a launch abort motor to Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) of NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, scheduled to fly next year. The test fligh
Palmdale CA (SPX) Feb 25, 2013 - The first four Airborne Astronomy Ambassador (AAA) educators returned safely to Earth, landing in Palmdale, Calif. early in the morning Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, after completing their initial fligh
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 23, 2013 - A countdown began Saturday for next week's launch of an Indian rocket that will carry seven satellites into orbit, including an Indo-French venture for studying the world's oceans, India's space agency said.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 22, 2013 - NASA's Space Technology Program is calling for proposals to develop miniaturized electrospray propulsion technologies that could revolutionize small satellite propulsion systems. Electrospray
Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 22, 2013 - Performing sensitive biological experiments is always a delicate affair. Few researchers, however, contend with the challenges faced by Cheryl Nickerson, whose working laboratory aboard the Internat
