Paris, France (ESA) Jun 22, 2011 - Europe's unmanned ATV space freighter plunged on command into Earth's atmosphere to end its mission as a spectacular shooting star over the southern Pacific Ocean. Contact with the spacecraft was lo
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 22, 2011 - A Russian cargo spacecraft undocked from a Soyuz-U carrier rocket and was launched into orbit on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said. It was sent to the International Space Sta
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 22, 2011 - ESA and Thales Alenia Space Italia have announced an agreement at the Paris Air and Space Show to begin building the IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle for its mission into space in 2013. E
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 21, 2011 - Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne completed assembly of the first J-2X upper-stage engine for NASA's next era of human spaceflight in preparation for demonstration testing expected to begin this month at
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 21, 2011 - Europe's Johannes Kepler ATV cargo ferry undocked from the International Space Station Monday at 14:46:30 GMT (16:46:30 CEST). The craft is now leaving the orbital outpost far behind and will end it
Washington (AFP) June 21, 2011 - Mark Kelly, the US astronaut who commanded the final flight by the shuttle Endeavour, announced Tuesday he is retiring to spend more time with his lawmaker wife as she recovers from a gunshot wound to the head.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 21, 2011 - With the ISS slated to go out of business in 2020 the world needs to decide exactly where manned cosmonautics is going from there. Speaking at a professional roundtable, held on the fringes of the I
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jun 21, 2011 - The four veteran astronauts for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-135 mission arrived Monday evening at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for their prelaunch countdown rehearsal. I speak on be
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 21, 2011 - The May 9 Launchspace email release introduced the latest idea from the Department of Mad Scientists, a study of a 100-year starship mission. This is a joint NASA/DARPA project to generate ideas f
Xichang, China (XNA) Jun 21, 2011 - China will launch a new communication satellite, Zhongxing-10, in the next few days at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China. Sources with the center said Sunday that a Long M
Cleveland OH (SPX) Jun 20, 2011 - NASA issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking proposals for mission concept studies of a solar electric propulsion system demonstration to test and validate key capabilities and technologies
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 20, 2011 - As scientists develop plans one day to send humans to Mars, they know the journey will involve many hazards for the astronauts, including possibly many months of exposure to dangerous radiation outs
Le Bourget, France (AFP) June 20, 2011 - Europe's space chief on Monday said the International Space Station faced lean times as a result of the US shuttle phase-out and said project planning for transport to the ISS had been anarchy.
Paris (ESA) Jun 20, 2011 - ATV Johannes Kepler has been an important part of the International Space Station since February. Next week, it will complete its mission by undocking and burning up harmlessly in the atmosphere hig
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2011 - NASA is inviting eligible education institutions, museums and other organizations to examine and request space program artifacts online. The items represent significant human spaceflight technologie
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2011 - For the next phase of NASA's Commercial Crew Development Program, following CCDev Rounds 1 and 2, the Commercial Spaceflight Federation strongly supports the use of Space Act Agreements (SAAs) under
