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Sally Ride, first US woman in space dead at 61
Jul 24, 2012 (AFP)
Sally Ride, the first American woman to journey into space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her foundation announced. She was 61....
NASA Completes Another Orion Parachute Test
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
NASA completed another successful test Wednesday of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the spacecraft's orbita...
NASA and ATK Complete Space Act Agreement
Jul 19, 2012 (SPX)
Alliant Techsystems has successfully completed its Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Through CCDev2,...
NASA Completes Another Successful Orion Parachute Test
Jul 19, 2012 (SPX)
NASA completed another successful test Wednesday of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the spacecraft's orbita...
Listening to the past and talking to the future
Jul 19, 2012 (ESA)
ESA astronaut Tim Peake recently spent 12 days underwater with three other aquanauts to look at the best ways for astronauts to explore an asteroid. Behind the ...
Ambitious ISRO enhancing India's space capabilities
Jul 18, 2012 (IANS)
India is boot-strapping its space-based assets to meet the growing demand for enhanced services in communications, broadcasting remote-sensing and navigation, a...
New York museum opens space shuttle Enterprise to public
Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)
A New York aerospace museum opened the space shuttle Enterprise to the public Thursday. The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has installed the space shuttle on ...
Inflatable Spacecraft Heat Shield Set to Launch
Jul 18, 2012 (SPX)
NASA technicians and engineers are putting the finishing touches on a unique experiment designed to demonstrate that an inflatable aeroshell/heat shield could b...
Me and My Spacesuit
Jul 17, 2012 (SPX)
Our Soyuz spacesuit is named after the Russian word for falcon: (sokol). It serves only one purpose, to keep us alive in the event of a cockpit depressurization...
Titanic II to have 'safety deck': Australian tycoon
Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer Tuesday said his modern-day version of the Titanic will retain the first, second and third-class divisions of the original a...
Virgin Galactic Reveals Privately Funded Satellite Launcher and Confirms SpaceShipTwo Poised for Powered Flight
Jul 12, 2012 (SPX)
During the Farnborough International Air Show 2012, Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline, announced "LauncherOne", a new air-launched rocket ...
Nose Landing Gear Tested for Dream Chaser Spacecraft
Jul 12, 2012 (SPX)
NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has completed a successful test of the nose landing gear for its full-scale Dream Chaser engineering flight test ve...
Branson to take kids on first space tourist trip
Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)
British tycoon Richard Branson said Wednesday his children would join him on the first of his Virgin Galactic space flights, as he unveiled a new satellite laun...
Space for dessert?
Jul 10, 2012 (ESA)
All chefs know that preparing the perfect chocolate mousse is one part science and one part art. ESA's microgravity research is helping the food industry unders...
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti set for ISS in 2014
Jul 05, 2012 (ESA)
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2014 for a long-duration m...
Orion's First Test Flight Offers SLS a First Look at Hardware Operation, Integration
Jul 04, 2012 (SPX)
When NASA conducts its first test launch of the Orion spacecraft in 2014, the crew module's designers will record invaluable data about its performance - from l...
NASA Unveils Orion During Ceremony
Jul 03, 2012 (SPX)
The Orion capsule that will make the first flight test into space was celebrated Monday morning as the cornerstone of a new era of exploration for America's spa...
The Road to Space
Jul 03, 2012 (SPX)
The road to space is a long and arduous path, a meandering trip that in many ways is more demanding than the Space Station mission itself. Training to fly into ...
Boeing Validates Performance of CST Vehicle's Attitude Control Engine
Jun 29, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing recently demonstrated the dual-role propulsion features and performance of the Orbital Maneuvering Attitude Control (OMAC) engine on the service module f...
First Space-Bound Orion on Its Way to Kennedy
Jun 29, 2012 (SPX)
A major milestone has been achieved for NASA's Orion program with the first Orion destined for space being shipped to the Kennedy Space Center. Construction on ...
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