
Migrating Microbes
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.
Editorial Team
The Space Travel Editorial Team produces Space Travel's coverage of human spaceflight and access to space. We report on launch, crewed missions and space tourism, and the propulsion, vehicles and human factors of getting people to space. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Space Travel takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

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.
Oct 16, 2009

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 16, 2009 - Russia has launched the Progress M-03M cargo spaceship to the International Space Station from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a Mission Control official said Thursday.
Oct 16, 2009

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 14, 2009 - Russia's federal space agency has started work to design a new carrier rocket to orbit manned flights from a new space center in the country's Far East, the head of the agency said on Tuesday.
Oct 14, 2009

Upham NM (SPX) Oct 14, 2009 - New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) officials announced a successful launch of a test flight vehicle for Lockheed Martin by UP Aerospace from Spaceport America on Saturday, October 10. The brief test flight was a non-public, unpublished event at the request of Lockheed Martin, who is testing proprietary advanced launch technologies.
Oct 14, 2009

Washington (UPI) Oct 14, 2009 - NASA and the U.S. Air Force say they are developing a technology roadmap for a commercial reusable launch vehicle, or RLV, industry.
Oct 14, 2009

Star City, Russia (AFP) Oct 13, 2009 - Canadian billionaire space tourist Guy Laliberte spoke with wonder Tuesday about his two-week voyage in space, calling his experience an amazing ride while admitting he had on occasion felt queasy.
Oct 13, 2009

Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 13, 2009 - The sixth Ariane 5 for launch in 2009 is delivered to Arianespace The next Ariane 5 mission has moved into its final preparation phase as the vehicle for this sixth flight of 2009 is delivered to Arianespace, keeping the company on track for its busiest year of launch activity ever with the commercial heavy-lift workhorse.
Oct 13, 2009

Houston TX (SPX) Oct 12, 2009 - Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Michael Barratt and Canadian spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte have returned to Earth, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft.
Oct 12, 2009

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 12, 2009 - The launch of a Progress space freighter to the International Space Station planned for late 2009 has been postponed until 2010, the Russian rocket and space corporation Energia said on Sunday.
Oct 12, 2009

Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2009 - Boeing, through its commercial launch business, has successfully launched the WorldView-2 satellite for DigitalGlobe aboard a Delta II rocket.
Oct 12, 2009

Paris, France (ESA) Oct 12, 2009 - ESA astronaut Frank De Winne became the first European commander of the International Space Station this morning with the departure of Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka who had filled this role since April. De Winne is the first non-American and non-Russian to take on this role.
Oct 12, 2009

Moscow (AFP) Oct 11, 2009 - Canadian circus tycoon Guy Laliberte returned to Earth on Sunday, wearing his trademark red clown nose, when a Soyuz capsule carrying him and two astronauts landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
Oct 11, 2009

Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2009 - The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-18 Block 5D-3 spacecraft, built under contract for the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin, is undergoing final preparation for a launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on October 18, 2009.
Oct 9, 2009

Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 09, 2009 - With a loud roar and a bright flash, engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., successfully completed the first round of development testing for the ullage settling motor - a critical element of the Ares I rocket.
Oct 9, 2009

Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 09, 2009 - NASA and industry engineers conducted a design limit load test of the Ares I rocket's main parachute Oct. 8 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The Ares I is the first rocket in NASA's Constellation Program which will launch explorers on journeys to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond.
Oct 9, 2009

Moscow, Beijing (SPX) Oct 08, 2009 - Boeing and Russian aerospace company RSC-Energia signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Moscow on Oct. 2 to work together on a future common docking system for advanced space exploration vehicles.
Oct 8, 2009