Seoul (AFP) July 14, 2009 - South Korea will this month launch a satellite using its own rocket as part of a drive to join Asia's space race, officials said Tuesday.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 14, 2009 - The weather has been anything but cooperative for the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, but NASA has promised a sixth attempt late Wednesday for the International Space Station mission.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2009 - Space Exploration Technologies, a California company known as SpaceX, said Sunday it has successfully launched a privately financed rocket into Earth orbit.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 14, 2009 - The lightning storms and tank problems that have blighted five attempts to launch the space shuttle Endeavour will leave cash-strapped NASA footing 4.5 million dollars in extra costs, the US space agency said.
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) 13, 2009 - Free Radical Productions has now made the documentary film, Orphans of Apollo, available on DVD @ www.OrphansofApollo.com. Orphans of Apollo is the award winning documentary that has been called the greatest space story never told.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 13, 2009 - The seven-member crew of the space shuttle Endeavour boarded the spacecraft Monday, amid uncertainty over whether NASA's fifth launch attempt would again be scuttled by poor weather.
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 13, 2009 - Space Systems/Loral has announced that it shipped a new communications satellite built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, where it is scheduled to launch in early- to mid-August aboard a ILS Proton Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services (ILS).
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 13, 2009 - NASA scrubbed a fifth attempt to launch the space shuttle Endeavour due to stormy weather Monday, and said it would prepare for a sixth attempt early Wednesday evening.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 13, 2009 - The US space agency will make a fifth attempt to launch the space shuttle Endeavour Monday after stormy weather has forced four postponements of its mission to the International Space Station.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 13, 2009 - We've all seen video of astronauts drifting and gliding gracefully around inside the International Space Station like fish in a fishbowl. It looks so relaxing. But as enjoyable as it appears to be, there's a down side to all that freefalling.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 12, 2009 - Forty years ago, mankind's most daunting frontier was boldly overcome when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, establishing America's dominance in the space race.
Paris (AFP) July 12, 2009 - By the early 21st century, we would be colonising the Moon, honeymooning on Mars and scouting the moons of Jupiter, if the visions conjured by the first lunar landing were to be believed.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 12, 2009 - The US space agency will make another attempt Sunday to launch the space shuttle Endeavour after a dramatic lightning storm forced it to postpone the flight in the latest blow to the seven-astronaut mission.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 12, 2009 - The US space agency will make another attempt Sunday to launch the space shuttle Endeavour after a dramatic lightning storm forced it to postpone the flight in the latest blow to the seven-astronaut mission.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) July 12, 2009 - A storm system forming around 36 kilometers (22.4 miles) away from the space shuttle Endeavour's launch pad could force the cancellation of the launch Sunday, a NASA official said.
Hong Kong (AFP) July 12, 2009 - Forty years after the United States landed a man on the moon, China's fledgling space programme is racing to get to the lunar surface before an American return and ahead of its Asian rivals.
