U.S. space tourist Charles Simonyi enjoyed an extra day in space on Tuesday when boggy ground meant the date and location of his return to Earth in a capsule...

A special program dedicated to the Judica-Cordiglia brothers will air in Italy on the History Channel on May 18. The program was produced for the History...

Found this in another ng. Net reaches out to final frontier Iris will allow troops to communicate over the net from remote regions A programme to...

I'm reviewing Caldicott's new "War in Space" book and would like to verify the identity of a missile shown on its cover -- you can see the cover...

Paying homage to the inimitable Rusty, I point out that "Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship," the 1946 study by what was about to...

For awhile there was speculation this was a returning Apollo-era S4B stage, but more recent measurements seem to lower the chances of that... Earth's "Other...

My calculations indicate that Mike L-A has the US longest-flight duration record, even though (and even with the new one-day mission extension to Saturday) he...

See this link: http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/release.asp?prid=605 I think it should be called Little Joe III, (It would be cool!!)! Carl

Rutan granted patent for SpaceShipOne On March 27, 2007, Burt Rutan and Mojave Aerospace Ventures were granted U.S. patent 7,195,207 for SpaceShipOne. To...

Has there ever been a spontaneous and catastrophic failure of a cryo upper stage during ascent? All of the Saturn upper stages were successful, as far as I...

call for papers - IMAGINING OUTER SPACE, 1900-2000 -- Germany, Feb 2008 IMAGINING OUTER SPACE, 1900-2000 February 6-9, 2008 Deadline for Proposals: May 15,...

I'm Sam, a high school senior with a serious interest in space exploration. I am writing a research report discussing whether putting humans in space is a...

In Thursday's Washington Post, Business section, by Marc Kaufman. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/11/AR2007041102168.html

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To me, it seems the Russians have a first, Space Tourist to Orbit. Is the proper name Four a Space Tourist, Cosmonaut or Space Flight Participant(Astronaut)?...

To me, it seems the Russians have a first, Space Tourist to Orbit. Is the proper name or a Space Tourist, Cosmonaut or Space Flight Participant(Astronaut)?...

(If there is any justice in this world, his returning Soyuz will inexplicably decide to reformat the reentry software and he'll return on a ballistic path...

What exactly are the variables that not only allow life to evolve on a planet, but allow it to develop a technology and intellect that allow it to have the...

In the 1990 book "The Big Splash" Dr. Louis A. Frank speculated that the odd Noctilucent high-altitude clouds seen at polar latitudes in summer were due to...

The MGS failure provides an interesting example of how trying to improve reliability may hurt it instead. Apparently, there are two different copies of the...