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Space race, on a budget, was not how Armstrong saw it
Aug 26, 2012 (AFP)
More than 40 years after Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, humans continue to push the frontiers of space exploration but missions are being tempered by costs,...
Sarah Brightman In Talks Over Space Trip
Aug 24, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
British singer Sarah Brightman is in talks with the space tourism firm Space Adventures to become the world's eighth space tourist, a senior Russian space offic...
Singer Sarah Brightman could be next space tourist: report
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
British soprano Sarah Brightman could become the next space tourist to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS), a senior official at the Russian spac...
Voyager at 35: Break on Through to the Other Side
Aug 21, 2012 (JPL)
Thirty-five years ago, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a journey that would make it the only spacecraft to visi...
For US students, plane tickets, TVs are relics
Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)
US college freshmen this year "watch television everywhere but on a television" and have "never seen an airplane 'ticket,'" according to an annual list created ...
XCOR Becomes Corporate Sponsor of Uwingu, a Space Apps Company
Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)
XCOR Aerospace, a leader in commercial suborbital spaceflight, has become a corporate sponsor of Uwingu LLC's crowd-sourcing campaign to generate funds to launc...
Florida Spaceport Stakes Claim to Commercial Missions
Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)
The three American companies building next-generation spacecraft that NASA could call on to carry astronauts into orbit in the future will perform much of their...
Dutch reality show to offer one-way tickets to Mars
Aug 12, 2012 (AFP)
As the world marvels at the latest US Mars landing, a Dutch start-up is aiming to beat NASA at its own game by sending the first humans to the red planet -- and...
Space Apps Company Seeking Crowd Funds For Space Exploration, Research, and Education
Aug 08, 2012 (SPX)
Uwingu LLC, a space-themed, for profit start up, is seeking crowd-sourced funding to launch an ongoing series of public engagement projects. Uwingu's mission is...
NASA, Louisiana Officials Renew Partnership With National Center For Advanced Manufacturing
Aug 08, 2012 (SPX)
NASA and Louisiana leaders Thursday committed to a five-year extension of their partnership in the National Center for Advanced Manufacturing (NCAM). NCAM is a ...
New US website lets 'crowd' fund college grad startups
Aug 08, 2012 (AFP)
A former Google executive on Wednesday opened an online venue where college graduates with dreams of starting companies can be matched with investors and mentor...
JPL Infographics Site Wants You and Your Creativity
Aug 07, 2012 (JPL)
JPL Infographics, a newly launched website and resource database from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is inviting space aficionados and grap...
Signs Changing Fast for Voyager at Solar System Edge
Aug 06, 2012 (JPL)
Two of three key signs of changes expected to occur at the boundary of interstellar space have changed faster than at any other time in the last seven years, ac...
NASA Goddard's Innovation Lab: Creating a Future
Aug 02, 2012 (SPX)
Interns at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center are an extraordinary group. Their eyes brighten at the mention of an informative lecture, they eagerly ask questio...
Space tourism seen as billion-dollar biz
Aug 02, 2012 (UPI)
Commercial spaceflight and space tourism could become a $1.6 billion industry in the next decade, researchers told a congressional committee in Washington. A jo...
NASA to Announce New Agreements for Next Phase of Commercial Crew Development
Aug 02, 2012 (SPX)
NASA will issue a news release to announce new agreements with industry partners for its Commercial Crew integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative at 9 a.m. EDT...
Science fiction comes to life in Italian lab
Jul 29, 2012 (AFP)
Once the preserve of science fiction, increasingly sophisticated robotic devices are vying for a place side by side with humans in the real world. At Italy's Sa...
XCOR Releases Payload Users Guide for Lynx Suborbital Vehicle
Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)
XCOR Aerospace has announced that the Lynx suborbital vehicle's Payload User's Guide (PUG) is now available online from XCOR's website. XCOR Program Manager Kha...
America Invents Act is a game changer
Jul 24, 2012 (SPX)
In an article published in the current issue of Technology and Innovation- Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors, Janet Gongola, Patent Reform Coordi...
NASA Offers Condolences on the Passing of Pioneering Astronaut Sally Ride
Jul 24, 2012 (SPX)
In a space agency filled with trailblazers, Sally K. Ride was a pioneer of a different sort. The soft-spoken California physicist broke the gender barrier 29 ye...
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