Topic: United States
PARIS (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz rocket will blast off from French Guiana on Thursday in a new East-West partnership designed to redraw commercial competition in space.The scheduled lift-off is the first time that Soyuz, which first flew in 1966 and traces ...
British billionaire Richard Branson opened the world's first-ever commercial spaceport in the New Mexico desert, the new home for his company, Virgin Galactic.The eccentric businessman, with usual flair, sported a black jacket and waves of hair flying as he inaugurated the building ...
High-profile critics fear President Barack Obama's commercial overhaul of human spaceflight is going nowhere and could mark the end of half a century of US supremacy among the stars and planets."We will have no American access to, and return from, low Earth ...
It was supposed to be a patriotic tribute to China's technological prowess. Instead, a video showing the launch of China's first space station module inadvertently glorified the country's biggest rival.A video animation put together by state television to mark the highly publicised ...
The US company SpaceX is working on the first-ever reusable rocket to launch to space and back, with the goal of one day helping humans colonize Mars, founder Elon Musk said Thursday.The vehicle would be a reusable version of the Falcon 9 ...
China is due to take its first step towards building a space station on Thursday when it launches an experimental module ahead of the country's National Day celebrations.The Asian nation sees its ambitious space programme as a symbol of its global stature, ...
A decommissioned NASA satellite, the biggest piece of US space junk to fall in 30 years, has crash-landed but the precise location is not yet known, the US space agency said early Saturday.NASA has repeatedly said there is only a "very remote" ...
The biggest piece of US space junk to fall in 30 years is taking aim at a vast span of territory that includes Canada, Australia and Africa as well as plenty of open ocean, NASA said.The US space agency stressed there was ...
The biggest piece of US space junk to fall in 30 years could hit Earth late Friday or early Saturday, NASA said as it struggled to predict where and when the defunct satellite would crash.NASA stressed there was only an "extremely small" ...
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, told lawmakers Thursday that the end of the space shuttle era has left the American human spaceflight program in an "embarrassing" state."We will have no American access to, and return from, low ...
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