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NASA Seeks Space Launch System Advanced Development Solutions

Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has issued a NASA Research Announcement (NRA) for advanced development proposals to support the nation'...

Patent requests in Europe reach record in 2011

Mar 25, 2012 (AFP)

Patent requests in the Europe reached a record high in 2011, in a telling sign that companies are determined to stay on the cutting edge despite a debt crisis a...

SciTechTalk: Can long space missions work?

Mar 25, 2012 (UPI)

As the United States considers a manned mission to Mars by the mid-2030s, ongoing research is beginning to raise doubts about the ability of human astronauts to...

MT Aerospace to manufacture flight hardware for IXV reentry vehicle

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

MT Aerospace received an important follow-up order to manufacture ceramic compound body flaps and heat shield components for the European IXV reentry vehicle: a...

Exercise has benefits, even when it's done in space

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

Astronauts have been taking part in short spaceflight missions since 1961. They have only recently begun to spend significantly longer times in space, with miss...

Students' experiments to play out in space

Mar 22, 2012 (AFP)

Science experiments devised by teenage students, one from Egypt and two from the United States, will be conducted in space as part of a move by YouTube and Leno...

Experients may force revision of astrophysical models of the universe

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

In a challenge to current astrophysical models of the universe, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories Z machine and the University of Rostock in Germany h...

Prolonged Space Travel Causes Brain and Eye Abnormalities in Astronauts

Mar 19, 2012 (SPX)

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the eyes and brains of 27 astronauts who have spent prolonged periods of time in space revealed optical abnormalities simila...

NASA Viz App Will Now Take Users Across the Universe

Mar 19, 2012 (SPX)

NASA's Science Mission Directorate is organized into four disciplines: Heliophysics, Planetary, Astrophysics and Earth science. This structure has put NASA scie...

Ashton Kutcher signs up for Branson space flight

Mar 19, 2012 (AFP)

Actor Ashton Kutcher is set to go into orbit after becoming the 500th customer to sign up for Richard Branson's pioneering space ship, the British tycoon said M...

Russia Drafts New Space Exploration Strategy

Mar 16, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has submitted to the government a draft of a space exploration strategy until 2030, Kommersant business daily reported o...

Skydiver in 4-minute free-fall jump

Mar 16, 2012 (UPI)

An Austrian who made a free-fall jump from 71,581 feet into New Mexico that lasted nearly 4 minutes plans to make a 120,000-foot "space jump," officials said. F...

Safety Requirements Shape Commercial Crew Designs

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

NASA's plans for a new generation of commercially owned and operated spacecraft and launches involve meeting a number of goals, none higher than keeping to the ...

Boeing Completes PDR of Commercial Crew Space Transportation Vehicle

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

Boeing successfully completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the company's integrated Commercial Crew Space Transportation system, which includes the Crew...

China needs own space laws: Official

Mar 13, 2012 (IANS)

China needs its own law to protect its rights in outer space as well as regulate its domestic space activities, a top official has said. "China is among the ver...

Most experienced US spacewalker retires

Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)

A NASA astronaut who spent more hours walking in space than any other American and also set a record for the longest spaceflight mission has retired to join the...

DARPA chief leaving for Google job

Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)

Google on Monday confirmed that Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency chief Regina Dugan is taking a yet-to-be-revealed role at the Internet powerhouse. "Re...

SciTechTalk: Rembering a space 'Pioneer'

Mar 11, 2012 (UPI)

Space probes and planetary orbiters have become so commonplace, launch of a new one, whether into our solar system or beyond, hardly causes a ripple in the publ...

Tile Makers Creating Orion Shield

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

Workers recently began cutting and coating the first thermal protection system tiles - part of the heat shield that will protect an Orion spacecraft during an u...

Weird and wonderful gadgets wow world's top IT fair

Mar 07, 2012 (AFP)

Water-powered clocks, eye-controlled arcade games and pole-dancing robots: this year's CeBIT tech fair, the world's biggest, showcased gadgets ranging from the ...