Moscow (XNA) Dec 28, 2012 - Russia was modernizing a booster which U.S. space agency NASA would use for manned flights, a Russian rocket engine manufacturer said Wednesday. We are adjusting the RD-180 engine for manned missio
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 28, 2012 - Russian space rocket corporation Energia has completed the technical design of a new manned spacecraft whose flight tests are due to begin in 2017, Energia President Vitaly Lopota said on Wednesday.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 28, 2012 - The first launch of a new Russian light class carrier rocket has been scheduled for the beginning of 2013, Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces Commander Maj. Gen. Alexander Golovko said on Thursday.
Beijing (XNA) Dec 28, 2012 - China has established its first key national laboratory for space cryogenic propellant research, which will provide technological support for the country's future space missions. Established i
Seoul (AFP) Dec 28, 2012 - South Korea has recovered what it believes to be debris from the engine of the long-range rocket launched by North Korea this month, the defence ministry said Friday.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 27, 2012 - The team designing America's new flagship rocket has completed successfully a major technical review of the vehicle's core stage. NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) will take the agency's Orion spacec
Chennai, India (IANS) Dec 27, 2012 - The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scored a century of launches in 2012 by putting into orbit four satellites, including the heaviest one built by it till date, entered a select group of
Washington (RIA Novosti) Dec 26, 2012 - The private US space engineering firm SpaceX released a video over the weekend showing its Grasshopper rocket making a short but important journey that could take space exploration to new heights: r
Huntsville, AL (SPX) Dec 26, 2012 - Boeing and NASA on Dec. 20 completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and avionics, validating the design of the rocket that will send humans beyond l
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 26, 2012 - The Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying Russian, Canadian and US spacemen successfully docked with the ISS on Friday with Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield and Thomas Marshburn safely floating inside
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 24, 2012 - NASA completed the latest in a series of parachute tests for its Orion spacecraft Thursday at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona, marking another step toward a first flight te
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 24, 2012 - Expedition 34 is the latest crew to spend Christmas aboard the International Space Station. The six-member crew, Commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineers Chris Hadfield, Tom Marshburn, Roman Romane
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 21, 2012 - On Wednesday, December 19, 2012, Arianespace successfully carried out the 53rd Ariane 5 launch in a row, orbiting two payloads: the Skynet 5D military communications satellite for Astrium Services,
Washington (UPI) Dec 21, 2012 - U.S. President Barack Obama has named 12 eminent researchers and 11 extraordinary inventors as recipients of national medal awards, the White House said Friday.
Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Dec 21, 2012 - Space Systems/Loral (SSL) and Sea Launch AG have jointly reported that the Independent Oversight Board (IOB) formed to investigate the solar array deployment anomaly on a satellite launched in the s
Washington DC (VOA) Dec 21, 2012 - With NASA's retired shuttles mothballed in museums, 2012 saw a new kind of spacecraft blaze its own path toward the International Space Station. In May, the Dragon space capsule - developed, owned a
