Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2011 - About fifty miles northeast of Los Angeles, the small town of Rosamond slumbers on the edge of the Great American Desert. Here the air is thin and cold, and in the distance the smog in the LA basin
Sydeny, Australia (SPX) Feb 01, 2011 - In April 2008, South Korean mechanical engineer Soyeon Yi became the first Korean in space. Her liftoff on board the Soyuz TMA-12 mission to the International Space Station was the start of a busy 1
Washington (AFP) Feb 1, 2011 - The US space shuttle Discovery was rolled out to the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida ahead of its planned liftoff on February 24, NASA said Tuesday.
John C. Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Jan 31, 2011 - You see a lot of smiles around the E-1 Test Stand at John C. Stennis Space Center these days. Engineers involved in testing Aerojet's AJ26 rocket engine for Orbital Sciences Corporation's Taurus II
Mission Control, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 31, 2011 - A Russian cargo spacecraft, Progress M-09M, docked on Sunday with the International Space Station (ISS). A Soyuz-U booster rocket carrying the spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur space ce
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 31, 2011 - The fuel and most of the cargo are loaded and ATV has been hoisted to the top of Ariane 5 as teams on four continents prepare for the 15 February launch of Johannes Kepler from Europe's Spaceport in
Moscow (AFP) Jan 30, 2011 - An unmanned Russian cargo vessel brought a fresh supply of food, fuel and oxygen Sunday for the six-strong crew of the International Space Station, Russian space official said.
Stockholm (AFP) Jan 28, 2011 - A major exhibit of more than 400 space-related objects, from engines to space suits to food rations, opened in Stockholm Friday in the largest gathering of NASA objects outside of the US.
Paris (UPI) Jan 28, 2011 - European Space Agency officials say the fuel and most of the cargo is loaded on a spacecraft preparing to launch to the International Space Station.
Washington (AFP) Jan 28, 2011 - Tributes were planned at Florida's Kennedy Space Center Friday marking 25 years to the day that the shuttle Challenger exploded, killing seven astronauts and forever altering US perceptions about the risks of human spaceflight.
Solna, Sweden (SPX) Jan 28, 2011 - The year of 2011 will be full of interesting space missions at Esrange Space Center - Swedish Space Corporation's (SSC) operational base for rocket and balloon launches, testing of new aerospace veh
Fairbanks AL (SPX) Jan 28, 2011 - Scientists from Virginia Tech and the University of Colorado are preparing to launch two NASA sounding rockets for two experiments at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks. The launch window
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Jan 28, 2011 - Hundreds of people gathered at a Florida memorial to place flowers in commemoration of the crew killed 25 years ago in the space shuttle Challenger disaster.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2011 - Call it a stunner. In an unexpected reversal of fortune, NASA's NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail to circ
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 28, 2011 - Expedition 26 Flight Engineers Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli used the station's robotic arm to attach the unpiloted Japanese Kounotori2 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV2) to the Earth-facing port of the
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 27, 2011 - Russia's Khrunichev research center plans to develop a new super-heavy carrier rocket that will be used to launch piloted spacecraft to Mars. The super-heavy carrier rocket will be based on t
