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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.

Economic crisis drives the mothers of invention

Geneva (AFP) April 4, 2009 - Crisis is the mother of invention, if one believes the bright sparks behind the gizmos, contraptions, novelties and potions at the international inventions exhibition in the Swiss city of Geneva.

Apr 4, 2009

Russia Urges North Korea To Show Restraint In Rocket Launch

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 03, 2009 - Russia urges North Korea to show restraint with its upcoming rocket launch and related activities, the Foreign Ministry's spokesman said on Friday.

Apr 3, 2009

Solar Sail Update: New Opportunities

Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 - The Planetary Society remains committed to flying the first solar sail. Specifically, we aim to fly the first controlled flight of a spacecraft using light pressure to increase the orbit energy.

Apr 3, 2009

Raytheon Introduces Rapidly Deployable Space Payload Design

Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 - Raytheon has unveiled Responder, an innovative payload design concept featuring a suite of interchangeable mission-specific sensors that could be deployed rapidly to meet immediate customer needs.

Apr 3, 2009

Russian launcher puts European telecoms satellite in orbit

Moscow (AFP) April 3, 2009 - A Russian Proton-M rocket was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Friday to put into orbit a European telecommunications satellite, the Krunichev space centre announced.

Apr 3, 2009

Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Thruster System Tested

Elkton MD (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 - Alliant Techsystems, NASA, and industry partners Lockheed Martin and Orbital Sciences have successfully performed a ground test firing of a sub-scale attitude control motor thruster system for the launch abort system (LAS) of NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle (CEV).

Apr 3, 2009

Russia To Launch Another 3 Soyuz Spacecraft To ISS In 2009

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 03, 2009 - Russia is planning to launch three more Soyuz piloted spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) this year, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday.

Apr 3, 2009

Astronauts May Need More Intense Workouts

Muncie IN (SPX) Apr 03, 2009 - A new study in the The Journal of Applied Physiology, suggests that astronauts need to modify their workouts to avoid extensive muscle loss during missions onboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Apr 3, 2009

Flooding delays return of Soyuz spacecraft

Moscow, April 3, 2009 - Flooding in Kazakhstan has delayed the return of a Soyuz spacecraft from the International Space Station, the Russian agency Roscomos said Friday.

Apr 3, 2009

Herschel And Planck Launch Update

Paris, France (ESA) Apr 03, 2009 - The verification of operations procedures for Herschel and Planck at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) has now positively concluded.

Apr 3, 2009

Astronauts prepare for final Hubble trip

Cape Canaveral, Fla., April 2, 2009 - The seven astronauts who will be aboard space shuttle Atlantis when it launches May 12 were busy Thursday in Florida, preparing for their STS-125 mission.

Apr 2, 2009

Station Crews Proceed With Handover Activities

Houston TX (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 - The Expedition 18 crew and the recently arrived Expedition 19 crew were busy working with various handover activities aboard the International Space Station Wednesday.

Apr 2, 2009

Rocket Launches May Need Regulation To Prevent Ozone Depletion

Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 - The global market for rocket launches may require more stringent regulation in order to prevent significant damage to Earth's stratospheric ozone layer in the decades to come, according to a new study by researchers in California and Colorado.

Apr 2, 2009

Atlas V/WGS-2 Launch Set For April 3

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 02, 2009 - The U.S. Air Force will launch the second Wideband Global Communications satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 here April 3. The launch window extends from 8:31 to 9:33 p.m. EDT.

Apr 2, 2009

Rocket programme to cost NKorea 500 mln dlrs: analyst

Seoul (AFP) April 1, 2009 - Impoverished North Korea is likely to have spent 500 million dollars on a programme to launch a satellite into orbit, the head of a state-financed think tank in South Korea said Wednesday.

Apr 1, 2009

NASA Awards $10 Million Cooperative Agreement To Maryland Firm

Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2009 - NASA Ames Research Center has selected the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Columbia, Md., for award of a new five-year cooperative agreement valued at $9,873,524 to provide internships to talented university students and faculty engaged in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Mar 31, 2009