Greenbelt MD (NASA) May 09, 2011 - Airlines can not afford to fly with empty seats very often - and Space Shuttle orbiters can't leave valuable payload capacity on the ground. Costing hundreds of millions of dollars per flight, NAS
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 06, 2011 - NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on one of Saturn's moons
Washington (AFP) May 6, 2011 - The launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour has been delayed for a third time, until at least May 16, as engineers try to fix an electrical problem, NASA announced Friday.
Douglas, Isle of Man (SPX) May 06, 2011 - Space projects and organisations such as Excalibur, Galactic Suite, Bigelow's Space Complex Alpha and Russian Orbital Technologies plans have created increasing interest in orbital space tourism, an
Vienna VA (SPX) May 06, 2011 - Space Adventures, the only company that has provided human space missions to the global marketplace, has outlined a forecast for commercial orbital spaceflight and announced details of how additiona
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 06, 2011 - On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, Freedom 7, at Launch Complex 5 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The slender, 82-foot-t
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 06, 2011 - The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised by 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) on Thursday, Russian Mission Control said. The readjustment is necessary to ensure the best condit
Washington (AFP) May 5, 2011 - Three weeks after the world marked 50 years since Russia's Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel in space, the United States is honoring the American who followed him, Alan Shepard.
Korolev, Russia (UPI) May 5, 2011 - The International Space Station's orbit was raised 0.62 miles Thursday to help NASA's Catherine Coleman and other crew members return to Earth, Russia said.
Moffet Field CA (NASA) May 04, 2011 - One day, years from now--or maybe billions of years, no one knows - aliens might be surprised to run across an old spaceship from Earth. Improbably far from home, the ancient probe is space cold, it
Beijing, China (XNA) May 04, 2011 - Four minor planets have been named after top Chinese scientists with the approval of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). It's a huge encouragement for us to receive this great honor.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 04, 2011 - The dry run simulation of Soyuz' first flight from French Guiana was given the green light for a virtual liftoff this week with the successful conclusion of the launch readiness review, which was
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 03, 2011 - Preparations for the simulated first flight of Soyuz from French Guiana are proceeding on schedule for a liftoff this week, confirming the medium-lift vehicle's readiness to join Arianespace's lau
Houston TX (SPX) May 02, 2011 - The very idea of spiders in space brings to mind campy, black and white horror films involving eight-legged monsters. In actuality, it is a scientific investigation called Commercial Generic Bioproc
Houston TX (SPX) May 02, 2011 - The ISS Progress 42 cargo craft docked to the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station at 10:28 a.m. EDT Friday, less than six hours before space shuttle Endeavour's scheduled lau
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) May 2, 2011 - NASA engineers say they have identified the likely source of a problem on space shuttle Endeavour that led to the scrubbing of last week's Florida launch.
