Glastonbury CT (SPX) Jul 28, 2010 - TopCoder has announced the success of a pilot competition that tasked its global community of software programmers with helping to develop the next generation of capabilities NASA will need for its crews to live and work in space.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 28, 2010 - What if work performed in space could improve the treatment of household and nuclear waste on Earth? That's what investigators are hoping to do with the results of a fluid physics study in progress on the International Space Station.
Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko concluded a six-hour, 42-minute spacewalk Tuesday at 6:53 a.m.
Sunnyvale, Calif. (UPI) Jul 27, 2010 - U.S. space tourists hoping to buy a ticket for a suborbital flight could expect to pay between $50,000 and $100,000 by 2014, analysts say.
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 27, 2010 - The members of the International Space Station's Expedition 24 crew shifted their sleep schedule Monday in preparation for their mission's first spacewalk, waking up at about 2:40 p.m. EDT.
Mountain View CA (SPX) Jul 27, 2010 - The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC), an independent coalition designed to promote outreach and foster research relating to the construction of an Elevator to Space, has announced that Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov and American engineer Jerome Pearson, pioneers of the modern Space Elevator concept, will appear at the 2010 Space Elevator Conference.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jul 27, 2010 - The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's third mission in 2010 is ready to enter the final launch preparation phase, during which this heavy-lift vehicle will receive its dual-satellite payload.
London (UPI) Jul 27, 2010 - Future manned space exploration will be the province of adventurers rather than state-backed missions, Britain's astronomer royal says.
Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 27, 2010 - Ball Aerospace and Technologies, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company and NASA conducted a successful technology demonstration of an inventive navigation system that will make docking operations safer and easier for spacecraft flying to the International Space Station (ISS).
Houston (UPI) Jul 27, 2010 - Two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station have successfully completed a space walk despite losing a tool and a washer, U.S. controllers said.
Farnborough, England (UPI) Jul 26, 2010 - A team of Pennsylvania students won first place in the third annual Transatlantic Rocketry Challenge in Farnborough, England, officials say.
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 23, 2010 - Today, the House Committee on Science and Technology approved H.R. 5781, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010, by a voice vote with broad bipartisan support.
Tehran (AFP) July 23, 2010 - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that Iran plans to send a man into space by 2019 as a blow to Western powers pressing Tehran over its nuclear programme, state news agency IRNA reported.
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Jul 23, 2010 - Twelve-year-old Emily Boyce knows exactly what she wants to do in life. I want to be the first woman on the moon and the first person on Mars, she said. Emily was one of 54 middle school children who, for one week, joined the Federation of Galaxy Explorers at Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy, one of Peterson Air Force Base's feeder schools at 4220 E. Pikes Peak Ave.
Hancock County MS (SPX) Jul 22, 2010 - Engineers at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center recently installed an Aerojet AJ26 rocket engine for qualification testing as part of a partnership that highlights the space agency's commitment to work with commercial companies to provide space transportation.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2010 - Aerospace engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center are conducting a series of wind tunnel tests to develop technology for future human space exploration.
