Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 24, 2012 - Why does NASA sometimes schedule a rocket launch for the middle of the night, or aim for a liftoff time when weather is notoriously unlikely to cooperate? The simplicity of the question belies
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 23, 2012 - So you want to be a cosmonaut? Now is your chance, but prepare to be tested like one. The countdown is on for Russia's first ever open cosmonaut recruitment drive, and while organizers wait fo
Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 23, 2012 - Sea Launch AG, through Energia Logistics Ltd., has conducted a Hardware Acceptance Review of the Zenit-2S launch vehicle to be utilized in support of the Intelsat 19 mission. A team of special
Beijing (XNA) Feb 21, 2012 - China will launch its manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft between June and August this year, as well as conduct a space rendezvous and docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module, a spoke
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 21, 2012 - Before firing up the dilithium crystals in your warp drive, you should know what you are getting into, said Lawrence Krauss, ASU Foundation Professor at Arizona State University. When applied to the
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Feb 20, 2012 - The Air Force Space Command commander spoke to the critical aspects of space launch, new technologies in launch operations and the long range vision for the launch mission during his speech at the 1
Vancouver, Canada (AFP) Feb 20, 2012 - A stark theme emerged from an annual scientific get-together in Vancouver: the world must be helped to believe in science again or it could be too late to save our planet.
Huntsville, AL (SPX) Feb 20, 2012 - A team of scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville's Earth System Science Center is working with the Japanese space agency to develop new rules to protect spacecraft from lightning.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 20, 2012 - ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are an essential contribution by Europe to running the International Space Station. Naming the fifth after Belgian scientist Georges Lemaitre continues the t
Columbus, Ohio (UPI) Feb 20, 2012 - John Glenn, feted in his home state of Ohio Monday on the 50th anniversary of being the first American to orbit Earth, says he doesn't consider himself a hero.
Poker Flat AK (SPX) Feb 20, 2012 - Scientists are now at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks waiting for acceptable conditions for the launch of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rocket. The rock
London, UK (SPX) Feb 20, 2012 - Twenty-two British companies are to share 2.5 million pound of government support to enable them to develop commercial products and services using space technology or space-derived data. The g
Washington (AFP) Feb 19, 2012 - The United States marks the 50th anniversary Monday of the first flight of an American into orbit. But the historic landmark is bittersweet: the first nation to land people on the Moon now depends on Russia for its manned space flights.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 19, 2012 - NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is being mated, or attached, to its Pegasus XL rocket at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California. The mission's launch is now
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 18, 2012 - Chinese space officials said Friday that three astronauts will fly to Tiangong 1 aboard Shenzhou 9. This reverses previous published state media reports that the Shenzhou 9 mission would be unmanned.
Huntsville, AL (SPX) Feb 17, 2012 - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has issued a NASA Research Announcement for the Space Launch System (SLS) Advanced Booster risk-reduction effort. NASA is looking for a
