Denver CO (SPX) Sep 20, 2010 - NASA announced yesterday that the Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems Athena Launch Vehicle Family has been selected to become part of the agency's Launch Services II contract.
London (UPI) Sep 17, 2010 - British engineers say they believe spacecraft taking off from an ordinary airport runway and carrying tourists into space might be a reality in 10 years.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2010 - Scientists have warned for decades that humans are straining the Earth. The global population is increasing, economies are expanding and consumption doesn't appear to be slowing.
Washington (AFP) Sept 16, 2010 - US aerospace giant Boeing has forged an alliance with marketing firm Space Adventure to put tourists into low-level orbit in a futuristic capsule by early 2015.
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 16, 2010 - Boeing and Space Adventures have established a memorandum of agreement regarding the marketing of anticipated transportation services to destinations in low Earth orbit (LEO) on Boeing commercial crew spacecraft.
Washington (UPI) Sep 15, 2010 - NASA says it has chosen the three-man, one-woman crew that could be the last to fly a U.S. space shuttle mission.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 15, 2010 - The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised on Wednesday by about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), Russia's Mission Control official said.
Washington (AFP) Sept 14, 2010 - US aerospace giant Boeing has won a 1.2 billion dollar contract extension with NASA to support the International Space Station, both parties said Tuesday.
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Sep 14, 2010 - A giant An-124 Ruslan cargo plane has landed at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan with a telecommunications satellite that will be launched for Sirius XM radio in mid-October, the Russian Space Agency said on Sunday.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 14, 2010 - Harris has announced that Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (LMSSC) will use its OS/COMET telemetry, tracking, and command software for the Orion Program's Telemetry System to serve the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) new Orion crew exploration vehicle.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 14, 2010 - The National Space Society (NSS) is reaffirming its longstanding and unwavering commitment to further space exploration and development, by calling on the Executive and Legislative branches to incorporate their various proposals into a Unified Space Policy so that the United States can once again begin to move beyond low Earth orbit.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 13, 2010 - What's it like to explore the surfaces of other planets? Two scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., are finding out by taking part in the annual Desert Research and Technology Studies, or Desert RATS, project, here on Earth. They will travel to the Arizona desert, a field location chosen to simulate possible sites of future planetary exploration missions.
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 13, 2010 - The European meteorological satellite organization EUMETSAT has chosen Arianespace to launch its new satellite, Metop-C.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 13, 2010 - NASA is enabling biomedical research with National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that take advantage of the unique microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station to explore fundamental questions about important health issues.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 13, 2010 - As NASA studies possibilities for the next launcher to the stars, a team of engineers from Kennedy Space Center and several other field centers are looking for a system that turns a host of existing cutting-edge technologies into the next giant leap spaceward.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 12, 2010 - A Russian cargo vessel docked Sunday at the International Space Station with 2.5 tonnes of supplies and material, a spokesman for the Russian space flight control centre said.
