Commercial space business "not healthy", says executive Posted: Tue, Feb 6 5:26 PM ET (2226 GMT) Overproduction of spacecraft and launch vehicles is hurting the commercial space industry and may lead to consolidation on a global scale, one executive warned Tuesday.... STS-98 countdown begins Posted: Mon, Feb 5 12:13 PM ET (1713 GMT) The countdown clock started Sunday night for Wednesday's launch of the shuttle Atlantis on a mission to deliver a laboratory module to the International... NASA, ESA may still block Tito's trip Posted: Sun, Feb 4 11:48 PM ET (0448 GMT) Despite Russian claims that California businessman Dennis Tito's flight to the International Space Station has been finalized, American and European officials are suggesting that... EUVE ends mission; MGS enters extended mission Posted: Sun, Feb 4 11:22 PM ET (0422 GMT) One NASA space science mission came to an end at the end of January while another completed its primary mission. NASA shut down the Extreme... It takes a Jupiter to raise an Earth Posted: Sun, Feb 4 10:43 PM ET (0343 GMT) Gas giants like Jupiter may play a more prominent role in nurturing Earth-like habitable worlds than once thought, according to a recent study. Jonathan... Report: Soyuz cleared for ISS flight despite technical issue Posted: Fri, Feb 2 2:36 PM ET (1936 GMT) Russian media reported Friday that Russia will launch a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station in late April despite the discovery of a depressurized... Thiokol changes hands again Posted: Fri, Feb 2 2:18 PM ET (1918 GMT) Alliant Techsystems (ATK) announced this week it was acquiring the Thiokol Propulsion division of Alcoa for $685 million in cash. Thiokol, best known for making... Charles Elachi named new JPL director Posted: Thu, Feb 1 3:21 PM ET (2021 GMT) Veteran JPL employee Charles Elachi was named director of the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Wednesday. Elachi, a researcher and manager at the Caltech-... NEAR Shoemaker to land on Eros February 12 Posted: Thu, Feb 1 11:29 AM ET (1629 GMT) NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker mission will come to an end this month when the spacecraft attempts a landing on the asteroid... "Cell-like" structures created in interstellar ice Posted: Wed, Jan 31 2:46 PM ET (1946 GMT) Scientists have managed to create complex organic compounds and even cell-like structures in icy materials like those that existed in the early history of... |
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