News briefs: July 18
Posted: Fri, Jul 19 7:57 AM ET (1157 GMT)
Lockheed Martin reported a slight increase in Space Systems earnings for its fiscal second quarter Thursday. The company reported earnings of $122 million for the...

News briefs: July 17
Posted: Thu, Jul 18 8:19 AM ET (1219 GMT)
The search for a spacecraft launched on a suborbital test flight last week continues in Russia. The Demonstrator-2 spacecraft was launched July 12 from...

Business briefs: July 17
Posted: Thu, Jul 18 8:02 AM ET (1202 GMT)
Boeing's Space and Communications division reported increased revenue and earnings in the fiscal second quarter, the company announced Wednesday. Boeing reported earnings of $181...

Proposed Soyuz crew manifest includes Bass
Updated: Wed, Jul 17 7:47 PM ET (2347 GMT)
Originally Posted: Wed, Jul 17 12:41 PM ET (1641 GMT)
Pop star and potential space tourist Lance Bass has been included in the proposed crew of a Soyuz taxi mission to the International Space Station...

News briefs: July 16
Posted: Wed, Jul 17 7:28 AM ET (1128 GMT)
China plans to launch its first people into space in 2003 or 2004, according to a US Defense Department report. The report also said that...

Bush Administration planning space policy study
Posted: Tue, Jul 16 8:38 PM ET (0038 GMT)
The Bush Administration is planning a review and possibly a major overhaul of the nation's space policy, according to a new directive. National Security...

News briefs: July 15
Posted: Tue, Jul 16 7:39 AM ET (1139 GMT)
The search for a Russian spacecraft launched on a suborbital flight continued Monday without success, the AP reported. Demonstrator-2, launched from a Russian sub...

ESA revives Venus Express mission
Posted: Mon, Jul 15 8:31 PM ET (0031 GMT)
The European Space agency announced Monday that it has restarted Venus Express, a Venus orbiter mission, just a little over a month after the project...

Experts say NEO searches need more funding
Posted: Mon, Jul 15 8:19 PM ET (0019 GMT)
Current efforts to search for near-Earth objects (NEOs) need more funding in order to search for smaller objects as well as research mays to...

News briefs: July 13-14
Posted: Mon, Jul 15 10:40 AM ET (1440 GMT)
XCOR Aerospace's EZ-Rocket rocket plane achieved another milestone late last week when it performed two flights in one day. The two flights took...