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O, Pioneers! (part 2): The Derelicts of Space

Mar 06, 2012 (SPX)

I had been twelve when Pioneer 11 departed the Jupiter system. By the time it approached Saturn, I was just starting my final year at high school. During the bu...

NASA Conducts New Parachute Test for Orion

Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)

On Feb. 29, NASA successfully conducted another drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's entry, descent and landing parachutes high above the Arizona desert in pre...

Workers Remove Apollo-era Engines from Crawler at VAB

Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)

For more than 30 years, NASA's two Apollo-era crawler-transporters carried six space shuttles (Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, Endeavour and Enterpri...

Space station on another planet suggested

Mar 02, 2012 (UPI)

An international space station could be built on another planet rather than in Earth orbit, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. "Is there a reaso...

Wish for city of the future takes shape at TED

Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)

The innovation group TED has given its coveted annual prize for the first time to an idea -- the city of the future. The $100,000 prize money, normally awarded ...

TED titans see through eyes of young innovators

Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)

Titans of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and finance gazed through the eyes of young innovators as the renowned TED conference formally got under way on Tuesday. TE...

Pioneers of Sol: The Motes in Gods Eye

Feb 28, 2012 (SPX)

March 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of one of the most extraordinary spacecraft ever constructed - Pioneer 10 - the first true deep space pr...

Technology and creativity go full spectrum at TED

Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)

Technology, art and magic will mix in perspective-bending ways this week as the prestigious TED conference continues transforming from an elite retreat to a glo...

Cosmonaut Testing at Star City Deceptively Simple

Feb 23, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

So you want to be a cosmonaut? Now is your chance, but prepare to be tested like one. The countdown is on for Russia's first ever open cosmonaut recruitment dri...

ASU professor uses Star Trek themes to communicate science

Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)

Before firing up the dilithium crystals in your warp drive, you should know what you are getting into, said Lawrence Krauss, ASU Foundation Professor at Arizona...

Stark warning emerges from science summit

Feb 20, 2012 (AFP)

A stark theme emerged from an annual scientific get-together in Vancouver: the world must be helped to believe in science again or it could be too late to save ...

Glenn: I don't think of myself as a hero

Feb 20, 2012 (UPI)

John Glenn, feted in his home state of Ohio Monday on the 50th anniversary of being the first American to orbit Earth, says he doesn't consider himself a hero. ...

2.5 million pound investment will grow UK space technology industry

Feb 20, 2012 (SPX)

Twenty-two British companies are to share 2.5 million pound of government support to enable them to develop commercial products and services using space technol...

50th anniversary of first US space flight is bittersweet

Feb 19, 2012 (AFP)

The United States marks the 50th anniversary Monday of the first flight of an American into orbit. But the historic landmark is bittersweet: the first nation to...

NASA Reaches Higher With Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request

Feb 15, 2012 (SPX)

NASA has announced a $17.7 billion budget request for fiscal year 2013 supporting an ambitious program of space exploration that will build on new technologies ...

Study: 'Crippleware' raises consumer anger

Feb 14, 2012 (UPI)

Consumers dislike "crippleware," a common practice of manufacturers of removing or degrading features in existing products, a U.S. study says. "Product versioni...

Space tours to the Moon - why not?

Feb 10, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

The first space tourist may be flying around the moon already five years from now if Space Adventures company has its way. The Virginia-based private space expl...

Jacob Bleacher Gives Free RATS Talk at Library of Congress

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

The Black Point Lava Flow in northern Arizona offers a research haven for NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) team of scientists and engineers,...

Sierra Nevada Delivers Flight Test Vehicle Structure

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

One of NASA's industry partners, Sierra Nevada(SNC), recently delivered the primary structure of its first Dream Chaser flight test vehicle to the company's fac...

NASA Calls for New Commercial Crew Proposals

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

As part of NASA's ongoing efforts to foster development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability to and from low Earth orbit and the Internatio...