Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2010 - Space may be the final frontier, but it's going to get more crowded pretty soon. And Stanford researchers are working to make sure the new pioneers can get there safely and easily.
Hawthorne CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2010 - SpaceX has announced their Dragon spacecraft has successfully completed a high altitude drop test - meeting 100% of test objectives. This is the last in a series of tests to validate parachute deployment systems and recovery operations before the craft's first launch.
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 23, 2010 - A team of eight institutions that includes the University of Colorado at Boulder has been selected by the Federal Aviation Administration to participate in a newly formed Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation.
Beijing, China (XNA) Aug 20, 2010 - China has finished construction of its first unmanned space module, Tiangong-1, and it is testing the module's electronic, mechanical and thermal properties, a military source said here Tuesday.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 20, 2010 - This fall, NASA researchers will move one step closer to sailing among the stars. Astrophysicists and engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., have designed and built NanoSail-D, a solar sail that will test NASA's ability to deploy a massive but fragile spacecraft from an extremely compact structure.
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 20, 2010 - Fifty years ago, Russia made a huge stride in its quest to send a man into orbit. On August 20, 1960, reporters crowded around two small but sprightly dogs, trying to get a good picture of the triumphant space travelers.
Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 20, 2010 - NASA is developing technologies that will allow landing vehicles to automatically identify and navigate to the location of a safe landing site while detecting landing hazards during the final descent to the surface.
Mojave, Calif. (UPI) Aug 20, 2010 - The mother ship jet designed to launch suborbital space tourist flights was damaged upon landing in California when a landing gear collapsed, officials said.
Moscow (AFP) Aug 19, 2010 - The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully corrected on Thursday, an official of the Russian space flights control centre announced.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 19, 2010 - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, NM, to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation.
Milwaukee WI (SPX) Aug 19, 2010 - Astronaut muscles waste away on long space flights reducing their capacity for physical work by more than 40%, according to research published online in the Journal of Physiology.
Washington (UPI) Aug 19, 2010 - A U.S. senator has introduced legislation he says would give tax incentives to private companies and investors developing commercial spacecraft.
Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 19, 2010 - If ping-pong balls can float a sunken boat, they should be able to keep an uncrewed space capsule simulator from sinking. Right?
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 19, 2010 - The Expedition 24 crew had another light-duty day Wednesday as the Loop A cooling system reactivation continued aboard the International Space Station. The reactivation followed Monday's spacewalk, the third in a series of excursions that began Aug. 7 to remove and replace an ammonia coolant pump module that failed July 31.
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 17, 2010 - The International Space Station (ISS), which has been in orbit for 10 years, could continue work for another decade, the head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Monday.
Washington (AFP) Aug 16, 2010 - Astronauts from the International Space Station on Monday embarked on a third spacewalk to fix the orbiting station's busted cooling system, NASA said.
