Seoul (AFP) Aug 18, 2009 - South Korea was Tuesday counting down to the launch of its first space rocket, a move aimed at joining Asia's space race despite protests from rival North Korea.
Wallops Island VA (SPX) Aug 18, 2009 - A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
Seoul, South Korea (Yonhap) Aug 18, 2009 - S. Korea's first space rocket has been safely put onto its launch pad ahead of its historic launch scheduled for this week, the state-run aerospace institute said Monday.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Aug 18, 2009 - Arianespace has completed the payload integration on its fourth Ariane 5 to be launched in 2009, clearing the way for this vehicle's liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana on Friday, August 21.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 17, 2009 - For the first time in more than a quarter-century a new space vehicle stands ready in NASA's Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building. The Ares I-X rocket, its simulated crew module and launch abort system are assembled on a mobile launch platform at Kennedy in preparation for launch this fall.
Seoul, South Korea (Yonhap) Aug 17, 2009 - Bad weather conditions could pose a final hurdle to the timely launch of South Korea's first space rocket, experts said Sunday.
Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 17, 2009 - Inflatable aircraft are not a new idea. Hot air balloons have been around for more than two centuries and blimps are a common sight over many sports stadiums. But it's hard to imagine an inflatable spacecraft.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 17, 2009 - Forty years after man landed on the moon, NASA plans to retire the Space Shuttle in 2010. It will be five years before NASA has a vehicle ready to carry astronauts back into space, which has some concerned about the future of the space program. Kane Farabaugh sat down with Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell to discuss what is in store for space exploration.
Seoul, Korea (Yonhap) Aug 17, 2009 - South Korea's first space rocket is expected to mark a milestone in the country's budding space exploration ambitions, which the government says include building a lunar lander within the next 20 years.
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Aug 14, 2009 - Both spacecraft for Arianespace's fourth heavy-lift mission of 2009 are well advanced in their integration phase as preparations move forward for the August 21 nighttime launch from French Guiana.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 13, 2009 - NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. will conduct the first full-scale, full-duration test of the new first-stage solid rocket motor for the Ares I rocket at 1 p.m. MDT, on Tuesday, Aug. 25. The test will take place at the ATK test facility in Promontory, Utah.
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 13, 2009 - As a result of the latest International Space Station Multi-Lateral Crew Operations Panel (MCOP) recently held in Houston, ESA has announced that the European crewmember of Expedition 30/31 to fly to the International Space Station in 2011 will be Andre Kuipers from the Netherlands.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 13, 2009 - International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the AsiaSat 5 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) of Hong Kong. This was the fourth commercial mission of the year for ILS and the sixth successful Proton launch of 2009. From contract signing to launch, the full integration of the AsiaSat 5 mission was completed in less than six months.
Washington (AFP) Aug 13, 2009 - NASA said Thursday that engineers are testing the foam insulation bonding on the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tanks before it heads to the International Space Station on August 25.
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 13, 2009 - Our solar system is in motion - the planets orbit the Sun and at the same time rotate around their own axes. This cosmic dance goes back to the origins of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. At that time, a huge cloud of gas and dust (consisting of the remains of earlier stars and of interstellar matter) began to coalesce under the influence to its own gravity.
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 12, 2009 - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), working with The National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center, is leading a program that will provide spaceflight physiology training for prospective scientist-astronauts wishing to fly on upcoming suborbital space missions.
