Houston TX (SPX) Apr 04, 2012 - Boeing has completed a parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft at the Delmar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. CST-100 is part of the Boeing Commercial Crew T
L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) April 4, 2012 - Three years after a quake devastated L'Aquila, the Italian town has launched a bid to become a hi-tech European city - to the scepticism of thousands of people still living in temporary housing.
Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (UPI) Apr 4, 2012 - A Delta 4 rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on a mission to deliver a spy satellite to orbit, officials said.
Paris (ESA) Apr 04, 2012 - Just two days after a flawless docking with the ISS on 29 March, ESA's third ATV has conducted its first 'test' reboost, proving that it is fully integrated with the Station and ready to perform orb
Dulles, VA (SPX) Apr 04, 2012 - Orbital Sciences reports that the U.S. Air Force has exercised an option order for a Minotaur I space launch vehicle to support the ORS-3 Enabler mission for the Operationally Responsive Space (OR
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 03, 2012 - Europe's ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft, which docked with the ISS earlier this week, readjusted the space station's orbit on Sunday, the Mission Control said. Two main engines of ATV-3 we
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 03, 2012 - 150 years ago in 1862, amidst the bloodiest war in our nation's history, the Lincoln administration had the foresight to pass two historic pieces of legislation: the Pacific Railway Act and the Home
Huntsville, AL (SPX) Apr 03, 2012 - NASA has successfully tested the solid rocket booster avionics for the first two test flights of the Space Launch System, America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle. This avionics system include
Pullman, WA (SPX) Apr 02, 2012 - We have all heard of the smartphone and any day now, most of us will have one. Not far behind: the smart home. Writing in the latest issue of the journal Science, Washington State University's
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 02, 2012 - The first prototype of a new, ultra-compact motor that will allow small satellites to journey beyond Earth's orbit is just making its way out of the EPFL laboratories where it was built. The goal of
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 02, 2012 - Russia's Space Forces launched a Proton-M carrier rocket with a Cosmos class military satellite on board on Friday, spokesman Lt. Col. Alexey Zolotukhin said. The rocket put the Cosmos-series
Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Apr 02, 2012 - The SpaceLoft-6 sounding rocket will launch April 5, 2012, at Spaceport America, in Upham, N.M., with seven payloads, crucial for future Operationally Responsive Space missions, demonstrating its de
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 02, 2012 - While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science fell among self-identified conservative
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 02, 2012 - A Russian Megawatt-class nuclear propulsion system for long-range manned spacecraft must be ready by 2017, Skolkovo Foundation's Nuclear Cluster head Denis Kovalevich said on Wednesday. At pr
China Lake CA (JPL) Apr 02, 2012 - NASA recently performed a trial run on a rocket sled test fixture, powered by rockets, to replicate the forces a supersonic spacecraft would experience prior to landing. The sled tests will al
Huntsville, AL (SPX) Apr 02, 2012 - America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle - the Space Launch System - is one step closer to its first launch in 2017, following the successful completion of the first phase of a combined set of miles
