Vatican City (AFP) May 21, 2011 - Pope Benedict XVI chatted with astronauts floating high above Earth Saturday as the Vatican linked up with the International Space Station for the first-ever papal video call to space.
Taipei (AFP) May 21, 2011 - Taiwan's leading telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom has launched its second commercial communications satellite in a joint venture with Singapore Telecommunications, local media said Saturday.
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) May 21, 2011 - NASA says it will know by Sunday if a damaged heat shield tile on the shuttle Endeavour needs to be repaired before the shuttle heads back to Earth.
Bethesda MD (SPX) May 20, 2011 - The trip to Mars just got a little more difficult now that French researchers have discovered that antibodies used to fight off disease might become seriously compromised during long-term space flig
Arlington VA (SPX) May 20, 2011 - The future of the U.S. human spaceflight program is at a critical juncture, said Aerospace Industries Association Vice President for Space Frank Slazer. Cutting exploration budgets any furthe
Washington (AFP) May 20, 2011 - Two US astronauts on Friday embarked on the first space walk of the Endeavour shuttle's final mission to the International Space Station, NASA said.
Washington (AFP) May 20, 2011 - NASA said Friday it is aiming to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on July 8 for the last-ever flight of the 30-year-old American shuttle program.
Washington (AFP) May 20, 2011 - NASA plans to take a closer look Saturday at a damaged heat shield tile on the underbelly of the space shuttle Endeavour, but mission managers downplayed the inspection as no cause for concern.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) May 20, 2011 - International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried Telstar 14R/Estrela do Sul 2 into orbit on an ILS Proton for Telesat, a leading global fixed satellite services operator. The ILS P
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 20, 2011 - The 44th consecutive successful Ariane 5 flight has further underscored the flexibility and performance of this workhorse launch system - orbiting a pair of telecommunications spacecraft to serve on
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 19, 2011 - Arianespace's third Ariane 5 flight of 2011 has been approved for its May 20 liftoff following a successful launch readiness review, which was performed at the Spaceport in French Guiana. The
Houston TX (SPX) May 19, 2011 - Endeavour docked with the International Space Station at 5:14 a.m. CDT Wednesday, bringing an advanced scientific instrument that could answer basic questions about our universe, perhaps shedding li
Laurel MA (SPX) May 19, 2011 - A highly sensitive and extremely compact instrument for plasma monitoring known as Canary, developed and built by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laur
Washington DC (XNA) May 19, 2011 - U.S. space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, kicking off its 25th and final mission. The event was important to the eyes of media and scientists in China because the
USAF Academy CO (SPX) May 19, 2011 - Academy Astronautics cadets and the Space Systems Research Center successfully completed its static fire of the FalconLaunch-T1 rocket motor on Monday in Jack's Valley. The motor burned for approxim
Washington (AFP) May 18, 2011 - The US space shuttle Endeavour, with six astronauts on board including an Italian, docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday, NASA said.
