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China's Chengdu aiming to be world's next Silicon Valley
Jan 02, 2013 (AFP)
Entrepreneurs in China's southwest are dreaming of turning the city of Chengdu into the world's next Silicon Valley as the government encourages more investment...
NASA's Destination Station Exhibit Opens In Mesa, Arizona
Jan 01, 2013 (SPX)
Arizonans can get a sense of what spaceflight is like at NASA's Destination Station exhibit at the Arizona Museum of Natural History in Mesa. The interactive ex...
Satellite highs, suspension lows for Indian space sector in 2012
Dec 27, 2012 (IANS)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scored a century of launches in 2012 by putting into orbit four satellites, including the heaviest one built by it...
NASA Puts Orion Backup Parachutes to the Test
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
NASA completed the latest in a series of parachute tests for its Orion spacecraft Thursday at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona, marking...
White House to honor scientists, inventors
Dec 21, 2012 (UPI)
U.S. President Barack Obama has named 12 eminent researchers and 11 extraordinary inventors as recipients of national medal awards, the White House said Friday....
TDRS-K Arrives at Kennedy for Launch Processing
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
The first in a new class of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 18 to begin the final phase of launch p...
Sierra Nevada Corporation Selected by NASA to Receive Human Spaceflight Certification Products Contract
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems is pleased to announce that its Dream Chaser Space System Program has been selected by NASA's Commercial Crew Pr...
New member of the exclusive space club
Dec 17, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
The successful launch of North Korea's Unha-3 rocket on December 12, 2012 became the top news in the world of cosmonautics. Even the previous day's story of the...
NASA Progressing Toward First Launch of Orion Spacecraft
Dec 17, 2012 (SPX)
Recent engineering advances by NASA and its industry partners across the country show important progress toward Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), the next step...
NASA Awards Commercial Crew Certification Contracts
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
NASA announced Dec. 10 the next step in its plan to launch American astronauts from U.S. soil, selecting three companies to conduct activities under contracts t...
What happens to plant growth when you remove gravity?
Dec 11, 2012 (SPX)
It is well known that plant growth patterns are influenced by a variety of stimuli, gravity being one amongst many. On Earth plant roots exhibit characteristic ...
China patent office becomes world's largest: WIPO
Dec 11, 2012 (AFP)
China's patent office for the first time became the world's largest last year, as the number of global patent filings continued to grow despite the sluggish eco...
What trends will take upper hand in space exploration?
Dec 10, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Space exploration in the future is linked to the creation of habitable bases on the moon. This opinion was expressed by head of Russia's leading research instit...
To reach final frontier, NASA can't go it alone: analysts
Dec 10, 2012 (AFP)
If NASA wants to help humans boldly go where no man has gone before, the US space agency must work with other countries, say experts who fear budget constraints...
Kickstarter's creative community takes hold in Britain
Dec 09, 2012 (AFP)
Tea enthusiast Emilie Holmes this week hit the streets of London in her antique van serving flavourful loose-leaf tea to drinkers she says have had to settle fo...
Civil Space 2013 Symposium
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
The Greater Huntsville Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is sponsoring a technical symposium (titled "Civil Space 2013") ...
Scientists say NASA's budget inadequate for its goals
Dec 05, 2012 (AFP)
NASA suffers from a "mismatch" between its goals and the budget it has been given to achieve them, according to a panel that said the US space agency may need a...
NASA Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
Dec 04, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross b...
Voyager discovers 'magnetic highway' at edge of solar system
Dec 03, 2012 (AFP)
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has encountered a "magnetic highway" at the edge of the solar system, a surprising discovery 35 years after its launch, the experts ...
SciTechTalk: Media fixes for space junkies
Dec 02, 2012 (UPI)
Visitors to NASA's website are currently being greeted with a request for public input on how the space agency's site should look as the agency ponders a re-des...
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