Islamabad (AFP) Oct 26, 2012 - Once you've been to both poles, skydived over Mount Everest and set up your country's first consulate in Monaco, the question is: what next?
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 26, 2012 - When astronauts return to Earth, their altitude isn't the only thing that drops-their blood pressure does too. This condition, known as orthostatic hypotension, occurs in up to half of those astrona
Beijing (XNA) Oct 25, 2012 - China will launch 11 meteorological satellites before 2020 to boost the country's weather monitoring network, according to the country's meteorological satellite development plan (2011-2020) release
Moscow (AFP) Oct 25, 2012 - A new crew of two Russians and one American successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday, Russian mission control said.
Seoul (AFP) Oct 25, 2012 - South Korea hopes to launch a satellite into space on Friday in its third attempt to join an elite club that includes Asian powers China, Japan and India.
Beijing (XNA) Oct 25, 2012 - China has made breakthroughs in researching spaceflight dynamics, a top scientist said Wednesday. Progress has been made in spaceflight trajectory computation and analysis, orbital tracking, t
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 25, 2012 - The Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft carrying three new Expedition 33 crew members, Flight Engineers Kevin Ford, Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, is poised for a docking to the Poisk module at 8:35 a.m.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Oct 23, 2012 - The crew for the next mission to depart for the International Space Station on Tuesday has been confirmed. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin, as well as NASA astronaut Kevi
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (XNA) Oct 23, 2012 - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday expressed the wish to speed up her country's space cooperation with Ukraine. Speaking by phone earlier in the day, Rousseff and her Ukrainian count
United Nations (AFP) Oct 23, 2012 - Felix Baumgartner, the first man to break the sound barrier in freefall, says he is giving up being a daredevil but now aims to help others in trouble.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 23, 2012 - A Russian rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off successfully on Tuesday for the International Space Station.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 23, 2012 - NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape test Oct. 19 at the company's West Texas launch site in Van Horn, firing its pusher-escape motor and launch
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 22, 2012 - We are now several months beyond the first crewed expedition to Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory. If educated guesses are any guide, we are probably several months away from the next exped
Seoul (AFP) Oct 22, 2012 - South Korea plans to make its third attempt to join the exclusive club of countries capable of placing a satellite in space on Friday with a rocket launch from the Naro Space Center on the south coast.
Providence RI (SPX) Oct 19, 2012 - The cabin of a spacecraft halfway to Mars would be the least convenient place - one cannot say on earth - for a Salmonella or Pneumococcus outbreak, but a wide-ranging new paper suggests that micr
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 18, 2012 - Specialists of the Moscow Region-based Mission Control Center will on Wednesday carry out a maneuver to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station, a spokesman for the center said.
