Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 24, 2012 - British singer Sarah Brightman is in talks with the space tourism firm Space Adventures to become the world's eighth space tourist, a senior Russian space official said on Wednesday. I think that i
Beijing (XNA) Aug 23, 2012 - China will launch several space projects, including a hard X-ray telescope for black hole studies, between 2014 and 2016, according to a senior Chinese astronomer. Su Dingqiang, an academic at the C
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Aug 23, 2012 - The second passenger for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 mission has arrived in French Guiana with today's delivery of the Astrium-built ASTRA 2F satellite, which will be operated by Luxembourg-base
Moscow (AFP) Aug 22, 2012 - British soprano Sarah Brightman could become the next space tourist to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS), a senior official at the Russian space agency hinted Wednesday.
Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 22, 2012 - NASA's Space Technology Program has selected five technologies that could revolutionize America's space capabilities. In March, NASA issued a call for proposal focused on sudden and unexpected innov
Moscow (UPI) Aug 22, 2012 - Europe's ATV-3 unmanned supply spacecraft has raised the International Space Station's orbit to about 261 miles, a mission control spokesman said Wednesday.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Aug 22, 2012 - Both Galileo navigation satellites for Arianespace's third Soyuz flight from the Spaceport are now in French Guiana, marking a new milestone for this mission scheduled in the second half of 2012.
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2012 - A Russian booster rocket has blasted off from the Odyssey launch pad in the Pacific Ocean as part of the Sea Launch project to deliver a U.S. satellite into orbit, a spokesman for Energiya space cor
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2012 - Thirty-five years ago, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a journey that would make it the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune and the longest-o
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2012 - The European Space Agency's ATV-3 space freighter will carry on with a planned manouver to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on August 22, the agency said on Thursday.
Washington (AFP) Aug 21, 2012 - US college freshmen this year watch television everywhere but on a television and have never seen an airplane 'ticket,' according to an annual list created to detail the generation gap.
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 21, 2012 - Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko began the first spacewalk of the Expedition 32 mission at 11:37 a.m. EDT Monday. The primary task during the 6.5-ho
Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 21, 2012 - In recent weeks China has appeared prominently in the international media. To the layman it would seem that the Asian superpower is advancing its space technology and exploration program at warp spe
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 20, 2012 - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Flight Readiness Review for the agency's Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is complete. There
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 20, 2012 - XCOR Aerospace, a leader in commercial suborbital spaceflight, has become a corporate sponsor of Uwingu LLC's crowd-sourcing campaign to generate funds to launch its first web-based products.
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 20, 2012 - Thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space station, patients being medicated for blood clots may soon get a simple, home-use testing kit, here on Earth. Fifteen y
