Washington DC (SPX) Apr 29, 2010 - NASA is planning to make some changes to the target launch dates for the last two scheduled space shuttle flights. Scientists with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, program recently decided to change out the current magnet in the particle physics experiment module that will be attached to the International Space Station to a longer lasting one.
Dulles VA (SPX) Apr 29, 2010 - Orbital Sciences has announced that it successfully launched the first Minotaur IV rocket in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) program.
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 28, 2010 - Russia will launch a cargo module to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 28, mission control said on Tuesday.
Bronx NY (SPX) Apr 27, 2010 - Tiny, melanin-covered nanoparticles may protect bone marrow from the harmful effects of radiation therapy, according to scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University who successfully tested the strategy in mouse models.
Washington (AFP) April 27, 2010 - NASA has pushed to November the launch of one of its three remaining shuttle missions to modify an experiment module to be attached to the International Space Station (ISS).
Dulles VA (SPX) Apr 27, 2010 - Orbital Sciences has announced that the SES-1 satellite, built by the company for SES WORLD SKIES, was successfully launched into orbit aboard an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Tokyo (AFP) April 27, 2010 - Japan is to launch a space yacht propelled by solar particles that bounce off its kite-shaped sails, the country's space agency said Tuesday.
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2010 - NASA's Human Research Program and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, of Houston will fund 11 proposals to help investigate questions about astronaut health and performance on future space exploration missions. The selected proposals, representing 10 institutions in eight states, will receive a total of almost $10 million over a three- to four-year period.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2010 - International Launch Services (ILS) successfully carried the SES-1 satellite directly into geostationary orbit today on an ILS Proton for SES WORLD SKIES, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG).
West Palm Beach FL (SPX) Apr 26, 2010 - Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne has helped boost into orbit the U.S. military's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. The mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., by a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Cape Canaveral AFS FL (AFNS) Apr 26, 2010 - Members of the 45th Space Wing launched a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle carrying an X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle at 7:52 p.m. EDT April 22.
Vandenberg AFB (SPX) Apr 26, 2010 - Team Vandenberg launched the first Minotaur IV Lite launch vehicle at 4 p.m. April 22 from Space Launch Complex-8 here.
Moscow (AFP) April 24, 2010 - A Russian Proton rocket carrying a US AMC 49 telecommunications satellite was launched into orbit Saturday, the Russian space agency said on its website.
Mexico City, Mexico (RIA Novosti) Apr 23, 2010 - Mexico will create its own space center on the Yucatan Peninsula, deputy economy minister Francisco Pimentel said. In the next few days, US astronaut Jose Hernandez and engineer Fernando de la Pena will travel there to carry out an inspection, in order to study concrete etails of the future construction, he said.
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2010 - Whether it's breaking through the sound barrier or flying different aircraft at the highest possible altitude, Edwards is no stranger to setting aviation records. Flight Test Nation delivered another first when the 418th Flight Test Squadron set a record for the heaviest single payload ever extracted out of a C-17 during flight April 14.
Moscow (XNA) Apr 23, 2010 - A Russian cargo spaceship undocked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday and started a five-day autonomous flight, said the Mission Control Center outside Moscow.
