Baku (AFP) Nov 5, 2010 - Azerbaijan has signed a deal with European aerospace giant Arianespace to launch the ex-Soviet republic's first satellite into space, the communications ministry said on Friday.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 5, 2010 - NASA gave the go-ahead for a Friday launch of shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station, after a series of delays brought on by bad weather and equipment problems.
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 05, 2010 - Drops of orange juice that transform into cubes, astronauts sliding back and forth on a sled in zero gravity, repeated glimpses of the blue globe below. The images that reached Earth from the D1 Spa
Beijing (UPI) Nov 5, 2010 - China put a navigation satellite in orbit in the 12th space launch of the year, eclipsing its own record for most space missions in a year, authorities said.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 5, 2010 - A hydrogen leak in the external fuel tank of Discovery forced NASA to delay its final mission. The next possible launch attempt will be, at this point, not earlier than Monday
Sacramento CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2010 - Aerojet, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and NASA, successfully completed acceptance testing on the second R-4D development engine. The R-4D is the Aerojet engine that will be used on NASA
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 4, 2010 - NASA cleared the Shuttle Discovery to launch Thursday to the International Space Station, but the US space agency warned of another delay if weather did not improve.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 4, 2010 - The final scheduled launch of the space shuttle Discovery before being mothballed in a museum was delayed for a fourth time Thursday due to bad weather, the latest in a series of delays for orbiter's mission to the International Space Station.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 4, 2010 - NASA postponed until Friday the launch of shuttle Discovery due to bad weather, the latest in a series of delays for orbiter's final scheduled flight to the International Space Station. Heavy rain early Thursday
The Hague (AFP) Nov 4, 2010 - The Dutch government said Thursday it will not allow oil giant Shell to store millions of tonnes of arbon dioxide in a depleted gas reservoir under a small town, upholding the fears of townspeople.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 04, 2010 - The International Space Station (ISS) could remain operational until 2020 if experts agree on the program of future on-board scientific experiments, a Russian cosmonaut said on Tuesday. The se
KSC FL (SPX) Nov 03, 2010 - Boeing engineers and technicians are supporting Space Shuttle Discovery's final mission, in part by processing the shuttle's payload, which includes the last U.S. pressurized element to be delivered
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 02, 2010 - We have all heard the expression space, the final frontier. Over the past several decades the space age has matured, and the general public and the government have been pressed to address many oth
KSC FL (SPX) Nov 02, 2010 - For more than 40 years, the twin crawler-transporters at NASA's Kennedy Space Center have traveled the gravel track between the massive Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Co
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 02, 2010 - Russian cargo transport vehicle Progress M-08M after a free flight for three days docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The contact of the docking unit of the ISS Russian Segment Pirs M
Marshall AL (SPX) Nov 02, 2010 - Manufacturing of NASA's J-2X rocket engine includes a Halloween plunge into an icy cauldron of liquid nitrogen. Key components of the J-2X fuel turbopump, the rotating machinery that drives the liqu
