Washington (AFP) Oct 3, 2011 - High-profile critics fear President Barack Obama's commercial overhaul of human spaceflight is going nowhere and could mark the end of half a century of US supremacy among the stars and planets.
Taipei (AFP) Oct 3, 2011 - A team of Taiwanese researchers have developed an invisible key technology which allows users to unlock their doors by means of simple hand gestures, the head of the team said Monday.
Paris (AFP) Oct 2, 2011 - Scientists on Sunday said they had gained insights into a remarkable bacterium that lives without oxygen and transforms ammonium, the ingredient of urine, into hydrazine, a rocket fuel.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 30, 2011 - China took its first step towards building a space station on Thursday when it launched an experimental module ahead of National Day celebrations.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 30, 2011 - It was supposed to be a patriotic tribute to China's technological prowess. Instead, a video showing the launch of China's first space station module inadvertently glorified the country's biggest rival.
Picayune MS (SPX) Sep 30, 2011 - NASA conducted a 40-second test of the J-2X rocket engine Sept. 28, the most recent in a series of tests of the next-generation engine selected as part of the Space Launch System architecture that w
Beijing (XNA) Sep 30, 2011 - China's first space laboratory, Tiangong-1, is slated to blast into orbit between 13:16 and 13:31 GMT Thursday, just one day prior to China's National Day on Oct.1. It will be the latest showcase of
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 30, 2011 - When Atlantis' STS-135 mission lifted off from Launch Pad 39A on July 8, 2011, on NASA's final space shuttle launch, it was carried aloft by the last two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) assembled at Ke
Beijing (XNA) Sep 30, 2011 - With a length of 10.4 meters and maximum diameter of 3.35 meters, China's first space lab module is hardly the size of any palace. But its name Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, speaks for a dream
Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 30, 2011 - Some developed countries acquired docking technology crucial to landing a space station decades ago, and, to catch up with leaders in space technology, China plans to use more speed and cut costs, s
Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 30, 2011 - China is working on the development of a new generation of carrier rockets featuring a larger thrust to cater to the demand of building a space station, a chief rocket engineer said Thursday.
Beijing (XNA) Sep 30, 2011 - Officials in charge of astronaut recruitment say civilians could soon get the chance to compete for a place on a spacecraft. Bai Yanqiang, deputy chief of the program's astronaut system, said
Beijing (AFP) Sept 29, 2011 - China will take its first step towards building a space station on Thursday when it launches an experimental module ahead of National Day celebrations.
Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 29, 2011 - A spokesperson with China's manned space program said Wednesday that the country's first space lab module Tiangong-1 is ready for launch and there will be no space junk left after docking tests in t
Beijing, China (AFP) Sep 29, 2011 - China took its first step towards building a space station on Thursday when it launched an experimental module ahead of National Day celebrations.
Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 29, 2011 - We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and m
