Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Apr 16, 2011 - Almost 2,000 workers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., will be laid off after the last shuttle flight, a contractor says.
Houston (UPI) Apr 15, 2011 - NASA says its Mission Control Center will be renamed to honor Christopher C. Kraft Jr., America's first flight director of human space missions.
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Apr 15, 2011 - The last solid rocket booster for the last shuttle flight was assembled in Florida Friday, officials said.
Washington (AFP) April 15, 2011 - NASA breathed a sigh of relief Friday after Congress approved a government spending bill that secured $18.5 billion for the US space agency, sparing it from the prospect of cuts.
Almaty, Kazakhstan (XNA) Apr 15, 2011 - The commissioning of a key space launch facility has been postponed again to 2017 due to errors in the draft design and slow progress in relevant flight tests, a Kazakh national space agency officia
Luxemburg (SPX) Apr 15, 2011 - In the frame of the Multi Launch Agreement with Arianespace, the Luxemburg operator of satellites SES has confirmed to Arianespace the launch of the ASTRA 2E satellite slated for the second semest
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 15, 2011 - The second flight of the US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has been underway for weeks. During this time, the USAF has been fairly quiet about its operations, but this hasn't stopped amateur satellite
Houston (UPI) Apr 14, 2011 - Drugs intended to treat minor illnesses of astronauts in space may need special handling to remain stable in the environment of space, NASA scientists say.
San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 13, 2011 - Northrop Grumman will use an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) to test a new way to cool military satellite payloads. The payload, the Massive Heat Transfer Experiment (MHTEX
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 13, 2011 - President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday awarded state honors to some of Russia's most senior cosmonauts as Russia is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight. Fifty years
Kiev, Ukraine (RIA Novosti) Apr 13, 2011 - Ukraine should participate in the construction of the Vostochny Space Center in Russia's Far East, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Kiev on Tuesday. Russia currently uses two launch sites: Baik
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 13, 2011 - Thirty years ago, on April 12, 1981, the U.S. Space Shuttle made its first voyage into space. Four years later, on the same date, rookie astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman made the first of his five flights
Columbia MO (SPX) Apr 13, 2011 - During the past 60 years, humans have built rockets, walked on the moon and explored the outer reaches of space with probes and telescopes. During these trips in space, research has been conducted t
Korolyov (RIA Novosti) Apr 13, 2011 - The head of the Russian spacecraft manufacturer RKK Energia promised on Thursday to demonstrate a mock-up of a new manned spaceship at the August 16-21 Maks-2011 air show to be held in Zhukovsky, ne
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 13, 2011 - On the morning of April 12, 1961, the Vostok spacecraft was launched into orbit carrying the world's first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, a citizen of the Soviet Union. YouReporter users and bloggers shar
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 13, 2011 - The International Space Station is a unique laboratory, due to its microgravity environment, but it still shares similarities with Earth-bound research facilities. Both perform experiments as part o
