Washington (AFP) Oct 22, 2009 - NASA's human space flight program is too underfunded to fly, an independent panel of experts said Thursday in their final report to US President Barack Obama.
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Oct 22, 2009 - The Space Foundation has strongly recommended that the United States keep the International Space Station (ISS) functioning until at least 2020 and beyond, if possible.
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 22, 2009 - NASA has chosen 18 proposals from universities around the country to receive up to $70,000 for Phase One of the NASA Ralph Steckler Space Grant Colonization Research and Technology Development Opportunity.
McGregor TX (SPX) Oct 22, 2009 - Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully conducted two static firings of the first stage, nine engine cluster for its Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 21, 2009 - The Ares I-X now is secured on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The test rocket, sitting on a mobile launcher platform, was hard down on the pad's pedestals at 9:17 a.m. EDT. The rotating service structure is expected to be rolled into place at about 12:30 p.m.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2009 - How can we be sure that instruments that will be sent on future Martian missions will work properly? How do we know that they will obtain accurate and precise measurements? How will we be able to compare the data to what we have seen on our planet? The answer is easy: by testing, testing and again testing them during field trips on Earth.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2009 - A chemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has developed a technology intended to rapidly assess any presence of microbial life on spacecraft. This new method may also help the military test for disease-causing bacteria, such as a causative agent for anthrax, and may also be useful in the medical, pharmaceutical and other fields.
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 20, 2009 - The launch of a Russian Phobos Grunt probe to Mars on October 16 has been delayed until 2011. The delay also affects China's first mission to Mars. The 240-pound Chinese Yinghou-1 spacecraft was to be mounted atop the Russian spacecraft for transport to the Martian orbit, where it was to be released before the Russian spacecraft landed on Phobos.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 20, 2009 - NASA is targeting Nov. 16 for the launch of space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Washington (AFP) Oct 20, 2009 - NASA is pushing back a space shuttle Atlantis mission to the International Space Station by four days to November 16 so that it can test an experimental rocket, the US space agency said.
Paris (AFP) Oct 20, 2009 - If being locked up in a cramped capsule for 17 months with five strangers is your idea of a good time, the European Space Agency (ESA) may have a job for you.
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2009 - Adding to the Atlas rocket program's accomplished five decade legacy, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V successfully launched the U.S. Air Force's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F18 (DMSP F18) mission from Space Launch Complex-3 here at 9:12 a.m. PDT.
Seoul, South Korea (XNA) Oct 20, 2009 - South Korean and Russian officials will meet to determine causes of a failure in sending a satellite, carried by a jointly developed space rocket, into the target orbit in August, according to local media.
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 19, 2009 - Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An ESA engineer working with engineers in the UK may have found a solution using a new type of orbit combined with continuous-thrust ion propulsion.
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 16, 2009 - Ministers from the 29 European Space Agency and European Union Member States will meet in Prague on 23 October for the 1st EU-ESA International Conference on Human Space Exploration, to prepare a roadmap leading to the definition of a common vision and strategic planning for space exploration.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 16, 2009 - In the ongoing quest for extraterrestrial life, imagine the day scientists discover life on another planet. Then imagine finding out that those life forms actually originated on Earth.
