Topic: United States
Russia's space agency voiced outrage Tuesday after the defence ministry refused one of its cosmonauts a celebrated state honour, in the first such snub in half a century of Soyuz flights. Cosmonaut Maxim Surayev, who returned to Earth in March after six ...
NASA and aerospace company ATK Aerospace Systems successfully tested Tuesday the most powerful solid-fuel rocket engine ever, even though its future in the space program remains in doubt. A huge roar and massive flames accompanied the two-minute "static" or non-flight test of ...
SpaceX says drop test of capsule parachute system fully successfulThe California rocketry firm SpaceX says this month's test of a parachute system to land a cargo or crew capsule safely in an ocean was fully successful. The Hawthorne-based company said Friday that ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, proposed on Tuesday legislation that would introduce tax breaks for investments in commercial space ventures to offset job losses from the end of the U.S. space shuttle program. Florida, where ...
Atlas rocket carrying military satellite that transmits in real time launches into orbitAn Atlas 5 rocket carrying a national security communications satellite is in orbit after an early morning launch. The rocket launched at 7:07 a.m. Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force ...
Legendary former US Senator Ted Stevens was among five fatalities after a small plane carrying nine people slammed into a remote Alaska mountainside, officials said Tuesday. Stevens, 86, the longest-serving Republican in Senate history before being voted out of office in 2008, ...
Today in HistoryToday is Monday, Aug. 9, the 221st day of 2010. There are 144 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, the United States exploded a ...
US space officials planned emergency repairs Monday after a failure of the cooling system on the International Space Station that has forced astronauts to reroute power. One of two cooling loops shut down Saturday night, triggering alarms throughout the orbiting station, which ...
US space officials planned emergency repairs Monday after a failure of the cooling system on the International Space Station that has forced astronauts to reroute power. One of two cooling loops shut down Saturday night, triggering alarms throughout the orbiting station, which ...
Space shuttle's contractor laying off 1,400 workers in the fall as part of planned reductionsThe private contractor that handles the bulk of the work servicing NASA's space shuttle fleet is notifying 1,400 employees in Florida, Texas and Alabama that they will be ...
