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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.

NASA to unveil space station name on Colbert show

Washington (AFP) April 10, 2009 - NASA's sense of humor is being put to the test.

Apr 10, 2009

NKorea warns Japan against searching for missile debris

Seoul (AFP) April 8, 2009 - North Korea warned Japan Wednesday against searching for debris from the communist state's rocket launch, official media reported.

Apr 8, 2009

Pratt And Whitney Rocketdyne Tests Propulsion Technology

Canoga Park CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2009 - Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne completed a series of successful hot-fire tests for a propulsion system that could lead to increased mission capability and flexibility in sending humans to the moon, Mars and beyond.

Apr 8, 2009

Expedition 18 Crew Set To Return Home

Houston TX (SPX) Apr 08, 2009 - The two crews aboard the International Space Station are set to go their separate ways, as Expedition 18 prepares to return to Earth early Wednesday.

Apr 8, 2009

Two-time space tourist returns to Earth

Moscow (AFP) April 8, 2009 - US millionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi shared a kiss with his wife in the Kazakh steppe after returning safely to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented second tour in orbit.

Apr 8, 2009

GOCE’s Electric Ion Propulsion Engine Switched On

Paris, France (SPX) Apr 07, 2009 - GOCE's sophisticated electric ion propulsion system has been switched on and confirmed to be operating normally, marking another crucial milestone in the satellite's post-launch commissioning phase.

Apr 7, 2009

Google Co-Founder May Become Space Tourist

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 07, 2009 - Russian-born American billionaire and Google co-founder Sergey Brin may become a space tourist in 2012, the president of Space Adventures announced at a press conference.

Apr 7, 2009

NKorea releases footage of rocket launch

Seoul (AFP) April 7, 2009 - North Korea Tuesday released film footage of its rocket launch, two days after a blast-off which sparked international condemnation.

Apr 7, 2009

Crews Prepare For Expedition 18 Departure

Houston TX (SPX) Apr 07, 2009 - Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov continued preparations Monday for their impending departure from the International Space Station. Among those activities were physical exercise and the transfer to their Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft of experiments and other items slated for return to Earth.

Apr 7, 2009

Europe sets May 6 for launch of Herschel, Planck telescopes

Paris (AFP) April 7, 2009 - Two large European telescopes designed to probe the formation of galaxies and the Big Bang believed to have created the universe will be launched on May 6, a spokesman for France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) said on Wednesday.

Apr 7, 2009

North Korean Rocket Launch Was A Successful Failure

Seoul (AFP) April 6, 2009 - North Korea has failed in its third attempt since 1998 to build an accurate long-range missile, analysts say, undercutting its image as a defiant state able to project its power across the ocean.

Apr 6, 2009

NASA inspector general resigns

Washington (UPI) Apr 6, 2009 - The U.S. space agency's controversial inspector general has submitted his letter of resignation to U.S. President Barack Obama.

Apr 6, 2009

Tense minutes as NKorea rocket flew over Japan

Tokyo (AFP) April 5, 2009 - For several tense minutes North Korea's rocket sped through the skies over Japan, but the Japanese did not try to shoot it down -- a move Pyongyang had warned would amount to an act of war.

Apr 5, 2009

North Korea failed to put satellite into orbit: US military

Washington (AFP) April 5, 2009 - The US military on Sunday disputed North Korea's claim that it had launched a satellite into space, saying the payload itself landed in the Pacific Ocean.

Apr 5, 2009

Soyuz Spacecraft Return To Earth Postponed Until April 8

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 04, 2009 - The landing of a Soyuz spacecraft with members of the 18th Expedition to the International Space Station and a U.S. tourist has been delayed by one day, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Friday.

Apr 4, 2009

Ball Aerospace Wins Ares Flight Computer Contract

Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 04, 2009 - Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has been selected by The Boeing Company as the contractor for the Ares I Instrument Unit Assembly (IUA) Flight Computer (FC) and Command Telemetry Computer (CTC).

Apr 4, 2009