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
Washington (UPI) Jan 27, 2011 - An unmanned Japanese cargo spaceship has safely arrived at the International Space Station, delivering tons of supplies for the station and its crew members.
Mumbai (AFP) Jan 27, 2011 - At Mumbai's open-air Dhobi Ghat, Prem Shankar Kanojia picks up items from a pile of laundry stacked at the side of a concrete washing tank and submerges them in water murky with soap suds and grime.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 25, 2011 - 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 circle our planet.
Moscow, Russia (XNA) Jan 25, 2011 - The Russian space cargo ship Progress M-08M left orbit and fell into the Pacific Monday after three month of work at the International Space Station (ISS), reported the Mission Control Center outsid
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2011 - As NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet Uranus 25 years ago, Project Scientist Ed Stone and the Voyager team gathered at NASA's Jet Propu
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2011 - The first West Coast Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle was launched from Space Launch Complex-6 here Jan. 20 at 1:10 p.m. PST. The largest rocket ever to launch from the West Coast of the United S
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2011 - Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station on Jan. 21 to complete installation of a new high-speed data transmission system, remove an old plasma pulse experiment, insta
Washington (UPI) Jan 22, 2011 - Analysts say mutual wariness is keeping cooperative efforts on space exploration between the United States and China in low gear.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 22, 2011 - A Japanese rocket successfully took an unmanned cargo transporter to the International Space Station into orbit on Saturday, Japan's space agency said.
Moscow (UPI) Jan 22, 2011 - Two Russian cosmonauts successfully completed their work during the first space walk by the crew of the International Space Station in 2011, officials said.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 21, 2011 - Japan's space agency said it would launch a rocket on Saturday to deliver more than five tons of supplies to the International Space Station, after an earlier postponement.
Washington (AFP) Jan 21, 2011 - Google, which prides itself on helping people navigate the Internet, is facing a tangled Web as it weaves its own future.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2011 - Space launches have evoked the same image for decades: bright orange flames exploding beneath a rocket as it lifts, hovers and takes off into the sky. But an alternative propulsion system proposed b
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 21, 2011 - On Thursday, the Space Shuttle Program baselined the STS-135 mission for a target launch date of June 28. It is NASA's intent to fly the mission with orbiter Atlantis carrying the Raffaello multipur
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 21, 2011 - A quick succession of international space supply trucks will arrive on the International Space Station's loading docks early in 2011, dropping off more than 11 tons (10,000 kilograms) of food, compu
