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.
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 17, 2012 - The United States may lose its leadership role in space to other countries unless it makes research and development funding and processes - especially in nanotechnology - a renewed and urgent priori
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2012 - NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin has successfully fired the thrust chamber assembly for its new 100,000 pound thrust BE-3 liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen rocket engine. As par
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2012 - Two J-2X engines and a power pack, developed for NASA by Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, sit side-by-side at John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as work continues on the Space Launch System.
Luxembourg (SPX) Oct 16, 2012 - New research findings recently published in The FASEB Journal, show that immune system development is affected by gravity changes, as reported by researchers from the University of Lorraine and Univ
Paris (AFP) Oct 15, 2012 - Daredevil Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking jump raises hopes that pilots and even astronauts can be saved from accidents in the stratosphere, experts said on Monday.
Taiyuan, China (XNA) Oct 15, 2012 - China successfully launched the Practice-9 A and Practice-9 B satellites into space at 11:25 a.m. Sunday, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center said. The satellites, launched from the center in
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Oct 15, 2012 - Intelsat S.A., report Sunday that an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton vehicle successfully launched the Intelsat 23 satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff occurred a
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Oct 15, 2012 - Air Force Space Command commander General William Shelton has ordered an Accident Investigation Board (AIB) to investigate why a Delta IV RL-10B-2 upper stage engine did not perform as expected duri
Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 14, 2012 - Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner became the first man to break the sound barrier in a record-shattering freefall jump from the edge of space Sunday, organizers said.
Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 14, 2012 - The US space shuttle Endeavour finally reached its California retirement home Sunday, after taking three days instead of two for its last-ever journey - 12 miles (19 kilometers) across Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 14, 2012 - An Austrian daredevil is preparing to make a new attempt Sunday to jump from the edge of space, days after his initial bid was aborted at the last minute due to the weather.
Washington (AFP) Oct 14, 2012 - The world looked on in fear and awe as Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner jumped from the edge of outer space on Sunday, breaking a slew of records and winning millions of instant fans.
Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 14, 2012 - Fearless Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian daredevil who stunned fans around the world Sunday by breaking the sound barrier in a hair-raising dive from the fringe of space, was born to fly.
Vienna (AFP) Oct 14, 2012 - Felix Baumgartner, set to leap from the edge of space on Sunday, is no stranger to breaking records. But neither is the firm bankrolling and sponsoring his audacious jump: energy drink maker and marketing trailblazer Red Bull.
Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 13, 2012 - Thousands of Angelenos lined the streets Saturday as the space shuttle Endeavour inched to its LA retirement home - hours late after squeezing through a particularly narrow home stretch.
