Topic: United States
The US space agency has narrowed down its prediction of when a defunct six-ton satellite will crash back to Earth, saying on Wednesday that it is expected to land on September 23, US time."The time reference does not mean that the satellite ...
What goes up must come down. But where?That's the big question when it comes to a 20-year-old NASA satellite the size of a tour bus which is careening toward Earth and set to crash-land later this week.The US Department of Defense and ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will launch a prototype module for a planned space lab next week, state media said on Tuesday, a step that will bring it closer to the United States and Russia as space powers.The Tiangong 1, or "Heavenly Palace," ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA plans to spend $1.6 billion over the next two years bolstering industry efforts to develop space taxis, officials said on Monday.The U.S. space agency will be looking for complete systems -- launchers, spaceships, mission operations and ...
When human space explorers reach an asteroid for the first time, NASA figures the experience will be more like swimming in space than walking on the Moon.So the US space agency is taking a deep-sea approach to practicing for the first deep-space ...
Three astronauts began their return to Earth from the International Space Station on Friday aboard a Soviet-era capsule whose mission follows an unprecedented spate of Russian space accidents.The Moscow-based Roskosmos space agency said the Soyuz TMA-21 craft undocked from the orbiter with ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Three International Space Station crewmembers climbed aboard a Soyuz capsule prepared for their return to Earth on Thursday, with their replacements delayed by an ongoing investigation into a Russian launch accident.Former station commander Andrey Borisenko, cosmonaut Alexander ...
NASA unveiled its plans Wednesday for a massive new launcher capable of powering manned space flights well beyond low-Earth orbit and ultimately to Mars.NASA chief Charles Bolden made the announcement of the design for the new Space Launch System, which the space ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman who survived an assassination attempt in January, will share her story with ABC journalist Diane Sawyer in November, ABC News said on Monday.Giffords and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly will share details of ...
The US space agency is offering schools and universities a special deal on astronaut cuisine and heat tiles from the now extinct space shuttles, just over 20 dollars a pack, NASA said Monday."The lightweight tiles protected the shuttles from extreme temperatures when ...
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