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.
Geneva (AFP) April 22, 2010 - Inventors are often perceived as eccentric, original thinkers inspired by dreams: but many of the 700 inventors at an international fair in Geneva showed skill, pragmatism and good business sense.
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2010 - Seventy-six students from community colleges in 28 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico have been selected to travel to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, May 20-22, for an out-of-this-world experience. They will participate in a three-day on-site event to develop robotic explorers that will rove the surfaces of other worlds.
Tokyo (AFP) April 22, 2010 - Japan plans to develop mind-reading robots and consumer electronics that can be controlled by thought alone and hopes to market them within a decade, the Nikkei daily reported Thursday.
Sydney (AFP) April 21, 2010 - An Japanese spacecraft which has journeyed to an asteroid is expected to return to Earth at a remote site in the Australian outback in June, the government said Wednesday.
New Delhi, India (SPX) Apr 21, 2010 - India will temporarily go back to using Russian-produced space equipment after its indigenous GSLV rocket failed, a spokesman for Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said on Friday.
Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Apr 21, 2010 - April marks the 40th Anniversary of the failed Apollo 13 mission and the near loss of its astronauts, James Lovell, John Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise.
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 21, 2010 - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov on Tuesday confirmed plans to launch a Soyuz carrier rocket from the Kourou space center in French Guiana later this year.
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 21, 2010 - Yury Solomonov, the designer of the troubled Bulava ballistic missile, said that the poor state of the Russian defense industry was the main cause of the weapon's failed test launches.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 20, 2010 - An engine nozzle turns a dramatic array of colors during a recent hot-fire test at NASA's White Sands Test Facility near Las Cruces, N.M. A team of engineers from Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and Johnson Space Center in Houston conducted tests on a cryogenic liquid oxygen and liquid methane engine to measure the engine's performance for future use with in-space vehicles.
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 20, 2010 - Space shuttle Discovery will spend another day in orbit after two landing opportunities at Kennedy Space Center in Florida were foiled by clouds and rain in the area. Forecasts call for Florida conditions to improve Tuesday and for generally good weather in California.
Dulles, VA (SPX) Apr 20, 2010 - Orbital Sciences is in final campaign mode preparing for the first launch of its Minotaur IV rockets in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) program.
Houston, Texas (AFP) April 20, 2010 - The space shuttle Discovery passed up the first opportunity to land in Florida early Tuesday because of fog and rain showers at the Kennedy Space Center.
Houston, Texas (AFP) April 20, 2010 - Shuttle Discovery touched down Tuesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, making a safe return to Earth after a two-week resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Yuma AZ (SPX) Apr 19, 2010 - Under a brilliant early morning Arizona sky, NASA conducted a successful, record-breaking test of a drogue parachute being designed to return next-generation space vehicles safely to Earth.
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 19, 2010 - Quality is focus of Arianespace following Ariane 5's launch postponement Arianespace has initiated a multi-phase effort to pinpoint and resolve the technical issue that postponed its initial Ariane 5 flight of 2010, as well as revalidate quality control procedures for the company's workhorse heavy-lift launch vehicle.
