Moscow (AFP) Sept 13, 2011 - Russia on Tuesday set its next manned space flight to the International Space Station for November and said it will not let the orbiter be abandoned despite a recent accident involving its workhorse Soyuz rocket.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 13, 2011 - Russia will have to delay the upcoming launch of six US satellites and two commercial European craft due to last month's Soyuz carrier rocket mishap, Russian industry sources said Tuesday.
San Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2011 - Biomedical research in space has yielded a wealth of insights into the effects of weightlessness on the human body, but recent funding cuts undermine the ability of the United States to continue to
Paris (ESA) Sep 13, 2011 - The first Galileo navigation satellite has arrived in Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, ready to begin preparations for launch on 20 October. Packed within its protective, air-conditioned c
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 13, 2011 - Three members of the crew currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are scheduled to return to Earth on Friday, September 16, the Russian mission control center said. The Soyuz TM
Huntsville, AL (SPX) Sep 13, 2011 - NASA and ATK Space Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of Development Motor-3 (DM-3), Thursday, Sept. 8. DM-3 is NASA's largest and most powerful solid rocket motor ever des
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 13, 2011 - The AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), the world's largest organization of professional planetary scientists, has issued a statement highlighting the discoveries of highly successful planeta
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2011 - The U.S. and other leading nations are looking to science and technology advancements to spur economic security and growth. Meanwhile, the political season has prompted fierce debates over the retur
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 13, 2011 - You are in space... your spacecraft is tumbling out of control, you need to fire your control rockets, the fuel is sloshing all around the inside of the tank... where is your liquid fuel? Without gr
Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2011 - The US space agency is offering schools and universities a special deal on astronaut cuisine and heat tiles from the now extinct space shuttles, just over 20 dollars a pack, NASA said Monday.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 12, 2011 - Russia said Monday it would return three of the six international crew members on board the International Space Station to Earth later this week despite no immediate plans to send up their replacement.
Promontory UT (SPX) Sep 12, 2011 - ATK has conducted a third successful ground test of the next-generation solid rocket motor. The successful test, known as Development Motor (DM-3), is an important milestone in further validating th
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 12, 2011 - On August 24, the Soyuz-U carrier rocket, which was to bring Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft to the ISS, failed to reach orbit and burned up in the atmosphere shortly after launch. The intergovernme
Michoud LA (SPX) Sep 12, 2011 - Construction began this week on the first new NASA spacecraft built to take humans to orbit since space shuttle Endeavour left the factory in 1991. Engineers at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in N
Washington DC (VOA) Sep 12, 2011 - The failure of a Russian Soyuz cargo rocket several minutes after launch last month, and Russia's decision to suspend all Soyuz launches while it investigates the cause, has created some problems fo
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 12, 2011 - Ball Aerospace and Technologies is one of four companies that will study the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space under a contract to NASA. Each company was awarded up to $600K to
