Starchaser unveils manned spacecraft prototype
Posted: Fri, Apr 4 2:05 PM ET (1905 GMT)
Starchaser, a British company competing for the X Prize, unveiled Thursday a small capsule the company plans to test fly later this year. The single-...

Russia to pay for additional ISS flights
Posted: Thu, Apr 3 2:52 PM ET (1952 GMT)
The Russian government announced Thursday that it will pay for the additional Progress flights planned to supply the International Space Station after efforts to get...

Russia launches military satellite
Posted: Wed, Apr 2 10:32 AM ET (1532 GMT)
A Molniya booster launched a Russian military satellite early Wednesday. The Molniya-M booster lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 8:...

Wing panel likely detached from shuttle in orbit
Posted: Wed, Apr 2 10:21 AM ET (1521 GMT)
Columbia accident investigators said Tuesday that they believe an object seen floating away from the shuttle while in orbit was most likely a panel from...

NASA announces next ISS crew, launch may be delayed
Posted: Tue, Apr 1 11:51 PM ET (0451 GMT)
NASA announced on Tuesday the names of the two members of the Expedition Seven crew scheduled to fly to the International Space Station later this...

Email message shows shuttle engineer's concern
Posted: Tue, Apr 1 2:24 PM ET (1924 GMT)
NASA released Monday a library of email messages and other documents related to the Columbia accident investigation, including one from an engineer who called the...

Delta 2 launches GPS satellite
Posted: Mon, Mar 31 8:33 PM ET (0133 GMT)
A Delta 2 booster successfully launched a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite Monday afternoon. The Delta 2 7925 lifted off from pad 17A at Cape...

Columbia recorder reveals heat damage started early
Posted: Mon, Mar 31 10:18 AM ET (1518 GMT)
An initial analysis of data on a flight recorder recovered earlier this month shows that temperatures within the left wing of the shuttle Columbia started...

Germany and Italy reach Galileo agreement
Posted: Sun, Mar 30 3:43 PM ET (2043 GMT)
The governments of Germany and Italy announced Friday that they had reached an agreement regarding how to divvy up contracts for the Galileo satellite navigation...

NASA, NIMA agree to photograph future shuttle flights
Posted: Sun, Mar 30 3:33 PM ET (2033 GMT)
NASA said Friday that it had reached an agreement with the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) to have spy satellites take images of space...