Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Sep 29, 2010 - The external fuel tank slated to fly with Endeavour on NASA's last scheduled shuttle flight arrived in Florida Wednesday, officials said.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2010 - The Commercial Spaceflight Federation strongly supports Senate bill S.3729, the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, which has been approved unanimously by the Senate.
Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 28, 2010 - Everyone has heard about the problems with space debris, but few are aware of what will happen when we have human space tourism and orbiting hotels. As an example, let's review a story about a cook on a future hotel/space station. It appears that this future space hotel was designed such that all guests have rooms with Earth views.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 28, 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 Complex 39. These mammoth beasts that first carried all the Apollo Saturn V rockets have since borne every space shuttle on the last Earth-bound leg of their journeys to space.
As we approach the launch of China's second Moon mission on October 1, some major questions about the spacecraft and its launch vehicle remain unanswered.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 27, 2010 - Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov admitted Monday to disappointment when he and his two crew had to return to the International Space Station after their Soyuz spaecraft failed to undock
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Sept 27, 2010 - Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson said Monday that Virgin Galactic is on track to offer commercial space travel within 18 months, and that space hotels are next on the drawing board.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 27, 2010 - Animal Defenders International (ADI), the leading animal welfare organization that works globally for the protection of animals, launched a major U.S. educational and legislative campaign to secure public and government support to prevent NASA from proceeding with irradiating squirrel monkeys to study adverse effects of space radiation.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 27, 2010 - China could launch its second lunar probe within days. The Chang'e 2 spacecraft was originally built as a back-up to China's first lunar orbiter, Chang'e 1, which was launched successfully in 2007. Rather than mothballing the spare spacecraft, China has sensibly planned a follow-up mission that will examine the Moon even more closely than the first.
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Sep 27, 2010 - Team Vandenberg launched a Minotaur IV rocket at 9:41 p.m. Sept. 25 from Space Launch Complex-8 here.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 25, 2010 - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three crew landed safely from the International Space Station Saturday, mission control said, after delays in undocking kept the astronauts an extra day in orbit.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 25, 2010 - A Russian Soyuz capsule with three crew landed safely back on Earth from the International Space Station on Saturday after unprecedented problems undocking kept astronauts an extra day in orbit.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 25, 2010 - The Soyuz spacecraft carrying US astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko undocked Saturday from the International Space Station after an initial failure, Russian mission control center said.
Moscow (UPI) Sep 25, 2010 - Russia's space agency says it plans to allow two space tourists to journey to the International Space Station on a Soyuz spacecraft in 2013.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 24, 2010 - An undocking error Friday prevented the Soyuz capsule from leaving the International Space Station, forcing three crew members to remain an extra day in orbit, Russian space officials said.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 24, 2010 - When packing for a manned mission to Mars or the Moon, the best thing to bring may not be food or fuel, but specially designed organisms that can create those things for you.
