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Apr 18, 2012 (ESA)

Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? T...

Manned space missions: from the ISS to outer space

Apr 17, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

21st century runs into its second decade, but man's space endeavours are still largely limited to the near-Earth orbit. Space agencies in USA, Russia, Europe an...

Voyager One Might Have Farther to Go to Exit the Heliosheath

Apr 17, 2012 (JPL)

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is exploring the outer heliosheath past about 111 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. he heliosheath is the region where the outgoing...

NASA's Human Spaceflight Programs: From Space Shuttle To The Future

Apr 13, 2012 (SPX)

The space shuttle helped the United States expand its leadership in space exploration during the program's 30 years of flight and laid the groundwork for the ne...

United Launch Alliance Announces New Human Launch Services Organization

Apr 12, 2012 (SPX)

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has announced the formation of a new organization that will focus exclusively on NASA's human spaceflight programs. ULA's Human Lau...

Commentary: Innovate or evaporate

Apr 12, 2012 (UPI)

He was voted one of the "50 Great Americans," holds 28 honorary degrees, received, not once, but five times, the U.S. Defense Department's highest civilian deco...

Private Lunar mission and the future of space tourism

Apr 11, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

Teams from America, Europe and Asia compete for the Google Lunar X-Prize. At stake are $30 mln. The aim is to send privately funded mission to the Moon, to land...

Inventors limber up for Geneva showcase

Apr 11, 2012 (AFP)

A ultra-quick sock drier and a device to repel pesky bugs are among about 1,000 inventions being showcased at the 40th International Exhibition of Inventions in...

Open access to science research debated

Apr 10, 2012 (UPI)

One of the world's largest research charities, Britain's Wellcome Trust, says it will support efforts by scientists to make their work freely available for all....

Russia Plans First Tourist Spaceport

Apr 09, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

The Uniparx Development company said on Thursday it was planning to build a spaceport in central Russia near the birthplace of Yury Gagarin, the first man to co...

Boeing Completes Parachute Drop Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft

Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)

Boeing has completed a parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft at the Delmar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. CST-100 i...

'Smart City' ambitions for quake-struck Italian town

Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)

Three years after a quake devastated L'Aquila, the Italian town has launched a bid to become a hi-tech European city -- to the scepticism of thousands of people...

New Study Calls For Recognition of Private Property Claims in Space

Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)

150 years ago in 1862, amidst the bloodiest war in our nation's history, the Lincoln administration had the foresight to pass two historic pieces of legislation...

First the smart phone, now the smart home

Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)

We have all heard of the smartphone and any day now, most of us will have one. Not far behind: the smart home. Writing in the latest issue of the journal Scienc...

Conservatives' trust in science has fallen dramatically since mid-1970s

Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)

While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science f...

NASA Space Network to Begin New Design Phase For Ground Segment

Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)

The Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment effort successfully completed its Key Decision Point - B review at NASA allowing the project to proceed into Phase ...

Leading Government Space Programs Under Strong Budget Pressure

Mar 29, 2012 (SPX)

Euroconsult has announced that global budgets for space programs have reached a plateau of roughly $70 billion, confirming a slowdown in expansion experienced b...

ICAP Ocean Tomo Auctions NASA Software Patent Portfolios

Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)

The Innovative Partnership Program Office of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will hold a March 29 auction with ICAP Ocean Tomo LLC of Chic...

Not your average heat shield

Mar 27, 2012 (SPX)

In a new approach to invisibility cloaking, a team of French researchers has proposed isolating or cloaking objects from sources of heat-essentially "thermal cl...

Experimental Payloads Selected For Commercial Suborbital Flights

Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)

NASA's Flight Opportunities Program has selected 24 cutting-edge space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons and a co...