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Choreographed to Perfection
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
Not all world-class choreographers design for principal dancers of the American Ballet Theater or the Marinsky Ballet, both known for extreme perfectionism; som...
India unveils its own astronaut crew capsule, plans test launch
Feb 26, 2013 (UPI)
India, hoping to become the fourth nation to send humans into space, has unveiled a key element in the effort, an indigenously manufactured astronaut capsule. T...
ATK Launch Abort Motor For First Orion Test Vehicle
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
ATK has delivered a launch abort motor to Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) of NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, scheduled ...
Educator Teams Fly On NASA Sofia Airborne Observatory
Feb 25, 2013 (SPX)
The first four Airborne Astronomy Ambassador (AAA) educators returned safely to Earth, landing in Palmdale, Calif. early in the morning Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013...
Kennedy Engineers Designing Plant Habitat For ISS
Feb 22, 2013 (SPX)
Some of the research on the International Space Station focuses on meeting the needs of long-term spaceflight to destinations such as asteroids or Mars. A group...
Supersonic skydiver's records confirmed
Feb 22, 2013 (AFP)
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner broke three world records when he jumped from the edge of space in October, the World Air Sports Federation confirmed on Fri...
NASA plant study headed to space station
Feb 20, 2013 (UPI)
NASA engineers say they're working on a habitat to learn the effects on plants of long-duration microgravity exposure in space. In possible future missions beyo...
NASA Spinoff 2012 Features New Space Tech Bettering Your Life Today
Feb 19, 2013 (SPX)
A plant texts a farmer to say it needs more water. An invisible coating scrubs pollutants from the air. A robot roams a hospital's halls, aiding doctors and nur...
Orion Lands Safely on Two of Three Parachutes in Test
Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)
NASA engineers have demonstrated the agency's Orion spacecraft can land safely if one of its three main parachutes fails to inflate during deployment. The test ...
Google wins contract to take over historic NASA-owned airfield
Feb 11, 2013 (UPI)
Google says it's won a contract to lease a NASA-owned historic airfield in California located just miles from the search giant's Silicon Valley headquarters. Pl...
Report: U.S. science and technology lead diminishing as Asia competes
Feb 07, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. predominance in science and technology eroded during the last decade as many Asian nations increased their innovation capacities, a report indicates. The r...
Supersonic skydiver even faster than thought
Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)
Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian skydiver who jumped from the edge of space in October, fell at 1.25 times the speed of sound, even faster than thought, organise...
Ahmadinejad says ready to be Iran's first spaceman
Feb 04, 2013 (AFP)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he is ready "to be the first man in space" under Iran's ambitious programme which aims to send a human being into o...
A Hero For Humankind: Yuri Gagarin's Spaceflight
Feb 04, 2013 (SPX)
In April 1961, a man watched the musical comedy film "Be careful, Grandma!" (by Nadezhda Kosheverova, with Faina Ranevskaya, Ariadna Markeliya and Lyudmila Shen...
Internet wonders which monkey Iran sent into space
Feb 02, 2013 (AFP)
Iran's announcement that it had successfully sent a monkey into space stirred questions on the Internet on Saturday, with people pointing to differences between...
Sierra Nevada Corporation and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Partner On Dream Chaser Programs
Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems is pleased to announce Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Littleton, Colo., is joining the SNC Dream Chase...
NASA Takes Strides Forward to Launch Americans from U.S. Soil
Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)
On Jan. 22, NASA took a crucial next step toward launching astronauts to the International Space Station from the United States. Beginning the first phase of th...
NASA Launches Next-Gen Communications Satellite
Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)
The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Ai...
Iran's Bio-Capsule Comes Back from Space
Feb 01, 2013 (FNA)
Iran announced on Monday that it has sent a monkey into the space on the back of Pishgam (Pioneer) explorer rocket and that it has brought back and recovered th...
Iran Takes First Step to Send Man to Space
Jan 31, 2013 (FNA)
Sending a biocapsule to the space and retrieving it successfully was Iran's first step on the path to sending a human to the space, Iran's Defense Minister Ahma...
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