Birmingham AL (SPX) Apr 08, 2011 - Astronauts anticipate more trips to the moon and manned missions to Mars. But exposure to cosmic radiation outside the Earth's magnetic field could be detrimental to their arteries, according to a s
Moscow (AFP) April 7, 2011 - A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and an American on Thursday successfully docked with the International Space Station, after a two-day journey, TASS news agency quoted the mission control centre as saying.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 07, 2011 - By elevating its life and physical sciences research program, NASA could achieve the biological understanding and technical breakthroughs needed to allow humans to be sent deeper into space, includi
Sydney (AFP) April 7, 2011 - The first space tourist flights may be several years away but a group of thirsty Australian scientists are at work on the critical question - what makes a top zero-gravity beer?
Kanpur, India (SPX) Apr 07, 2011 - Jugnu, the satellite being developed by IIT-Kanpur, will be launched from Srihari Kota in June. IIT-K director SG Dhande said that ISRO officials, who came to the institute a month back, had evaluat
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 07, 2011 - Expedition 27 Flight Engineers Ron Garan, Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko are set to dock to the station's Poisk module at 7:18 p.m. EDT Wednesday aboard the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft, brin
Paris (AFP) April 7, 2011 - Following are key dates in the history of space travel and exploration, 50 years after Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin became the first man in space:
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Apr 07, 2011 - A milestone telecommunications satellite has been delivered to the Spaceport in French Guiana for Arianespace's Ariane 5 VA202 heavy-lift mission, which will be performed as part of the company's bu
Reston VA (SPX) Apr 06, 2011 - International Launch Services (ILS) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) of Tokyo, Japan, announced a new contract for the launch of Turksat 4A and Turksat 4B on ILS Proton. Turksat 4A is sch
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 06, 2011 - The Expedition 27 crew members aboard the International Space Station did not need to take shelter in their Soyuz spacecraft when a piece of debris from a Chinese satellite made its closest pass at
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2011 - Elon Musk, CEO and chief rocket designer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has unveiled the dramatic final specifications and launch date for the Falcon Heavy, the world's largest rocket.
Washington (AFP) April 5, 2011 - SpaceX unveiled Tuesday what its chief executive Elon Musk has called the world's most powerful rocket, the Falcon Heavy, which will have its first demonstration flight at the end of 2012.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 5, 2011 - Three astronauts on Tuesday blasted off for the International Space Station in a spaceship named after the first man in space Yuri Gagarin in honour of his historic flight 50 years ago.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Apr 05, 2011 - A dual-purpose Indian satellite to be orbited on another of Arianespace's Ariane 5 missions during 2011 arrived in French Guiana today. GSAT-8 - which also is known by the INSAT-4G designation
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 05, 2011 - The Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters were perhaps two of the most prominent reminders of how crucial it is that everything work just right for a spacecraft to travel to space and succ
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 5, 2011 - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the NASA Ames Research Center announced their 100-Year Starship Study in October. This study is examining the business model needed to devel
