Paris, France (SPX) Jan 06, 2011 - Arianespace will use the world's best operational launch team to meet its goal of performing a planned total of 12 missions in 2011, when the expanded launcher family of Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega w
Orlando, Fla. (UPI) Jan 6, 2011 - The space shuttle enabled scientific discovery and expanded human access to space, but failed to make spaceflight routine and inexpensive, space experts say.
Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2011 - NASA said Thursday it had again postponed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, already pushed back to February, to an undetermined date to allow more time for repairs.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 05, 2011 - Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will begin modifications to 34 support beams, called stringers, on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank today. Crews will fit piec
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 05, 2011 - After reaffirming its world leadership in 2010, Arianespace is now actively preparing for the maiden launches of Soyuz and Vega from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. Since being found
Amherst NH (SPX) Jan 04, 2011 - Many dream of traveling to the Moon, Mars or even other galaxies. For some, these dreams date back to the US-Soviet space race; other dreams of cosmic travel are more recent, as the commercial secto
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 04, 2011 - Space shuttle Discovery remains inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where technicians are starting repairs on three support beams, called stringers, on th
Paris (AFP) Jan 4, 2011 - Arianespace said on Tuesday that it planned 10 launches in 2011, including six of its Ariane 5 rockets and the first Russian Soyuz rockets from the European space base in French Guiana beginning in August.
Ottawa (UPI) Jan 3, 2011 - Canada, which now relies on other countries to launch its satellites into orbit, has the technological ability to build its own rockets, space experts say.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 31, 2010 - This evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport on a journey to place two telecommunications satellites, Hispasat-1E and Koreasat-6, into their planned transfer orbits. Flight
Los Angeles (UPI) Dec 31, 2010 - Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is suing a trading card company for using a photograph of him on his historic moonwalk as part of a recent card series.
Reston VA (SPX) Dec 31, 2010 - International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos (Satmex) announce the launch of the Satmex 8 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L
Washington (UPI) Dec 30, 2010 - NASA says it is considering merging its space operations and human spaceflight mission directorates to better reach its manned spaceflight goals.
Washington (AFP) Dec 30, 2010 - NASA said Thursday it has found four more small cracks on the metal supports of the shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, as the shuttle and external tank undergo further X-ray testing before its final space mission next year.
Kourou, French Guiana (AFP) Dec 30, 2010 - An Ariane 5 heavy rocket lifted off from Europe's space base on French Guiana Wednesday and put into orbit the South Korean Koreasat 6 and Spanish Hispasat 1E telecommunications satellites.
Buenos Aires (AFP) Dec 29, 2010 - The Argentine Air Force has created a commission to record and investigate reports of unidentified flying objects (UFO) in the South American country's airspace, a spokesman told AFP Wednesday.
