The International Space Station celebrates its 15th birthday Wednesday, marking the day in 1998 when a Russian rocket lifted the first piece of what is now the largest manmade structure ever built in space. The launch of the module named…
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists and NASA officials are euphoric today (Nov. 18) after the smooth launch of the space agency’s next Mars probe, which is now streaking toward a date with the Red Planet in September 2014. The Atlas…
Our space correspondent meets the controllers of the International Space Station as they steer away from deadly space junk and keep astronauts alive. It could be the most boring reality TV show in the world, if the stakes were not…
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. — J. Craig Venter, the maverick scientist, is looking for a new world to conquer — Mars. He wants to detect life on Mars and bring it to Earth using a device called a digital biological…
Weather remained the main hurdle Sunday for an on-time launch of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) mission, an orbiter designed to answer the question “where did the water go” on the Red Planet. A two-hour launch widow opens…
The launch of the satellite Sputnik in 1957 ignited a race between the world’s two great rival powers. The United States and the former Soviet Union, USSR each poured vast amounts of resources into the research and development of technologies…
Virgin Galactic Once a week at dawn, C.J. Sturckow guns a blue Extra 330SC stunt plane into the pink sky above the Mojave Desert. At 14,000 feet, the 5-foot-9 former NASA astronaut starts doing his “card” – a checklist of…
Humans are not built for space. That fact becomes most obvious when astronauts return to Earth with atrophied muscles, weakened bones, cardiovascular problems, and some immune deficiencies. And it seems we also age faster in space, too. A study published earlier…
Locations are also being considered in the West Country and Scotland Would be the launching base for space tourism programmes Plans enthusiastically backed by Science Minister David Willetts Could become the home of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic programme Plans for…