Beijing (XNA) Nov 22, 2011 - Chinese orbiter Tiangong-1 has entered into long-term operation management in space after docking twice with the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8, a committee in charge of the orbiter's management dut
Moscow (AFP) Nov 22, 2011 - Three astronauts landed safely in the Kazakh steppe aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule on Tuesday after a stay of over five months aboard the International Space Station, Russian mission control said.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 22, 2011 - Arizona State University researchers have created a new compound crystal material that promises to help produce advances in a range of scientific and technological pursuits. ASU electrical eng
Beijing (XNA) Nov 22, 2011 - China will endeavor unremittingly in its pursuit of manned space technology, a senior space program official said Friday at a press briefing detailing the nation's first-ever space docking. On
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2011 - Two NASA California centers have been selected to develop new space-aged technologies that could be game-changers in the way we look at planets from above and how we safely transport robots or human
Beijing (AFP) Nov 20, 2011 - China placed two satellites in orbit on Sunday, including a spacecraft that will collect and relay data for disaster relief efforts, state press reported.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 18, 2011 - The safe return of Shenzhou 8 has ended a highly successful mission for China's human spaceflight program. Although there were no astronauts aboard, this flight has been as dramatic and important as
Stennis Space Centre MI (SPX) Nov 18, 2011 - NASA conducted a successful 500-second test firing of the J-2X rocket engine on Wednesday, Nov. 9, marking another important step in development of an upper stage for the heavy-lift Space Launch Sys
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 18, 2011 - The Arctic, Antarctic, Australian outback or Brazil: Wolfgang Jung spends several months a year in the most remote places on Earth to prepare and launch sounding rockets - also known as rocket probe
Beijing (XNA) Nov 18, 2011 - The successful space docking mission, including the good launches, Shenzhou-8's precise docking with Tiangong-1 and the smooth retrieval of the re-entry capsule, marks a new start for China to acqui
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2011 - The United Launch Alliance Delta Mariner, which transported a Delta IV first stage, second stage and payload fairings for an anticipated 2012 launch, docked at the Vandenberg Boat Dock on South Base
Long Beach, California (AFP) Nov 17, 2011 - Excited, nervous, terrified - just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying weightless flight all for the cause of science, naturally.
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 17, 2011 - Expedition 29 has expanded to six crew members. NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin docked the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft to the Poisk mini-research
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 17, 2011 - While many of us may not like to exercise, imagine having to do it two hours every day. Astronauts on the International Space Station must exercise at least that much to stay fit. A new space statio
Kennedy Space Center FL SPX) Nov 17, 2011 - The mobile launcher is making the longest trip of its young life to begin a two-week series of structural tests at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In anticipation of
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 17, 2011 - Arianespace and DIRECTV have announced a new launch contract for a satellite providing services for DIRECTV Latin America. The launch will take place in 2014 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana
