All Space articles – Page 65
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Orion to orbit Earth for six days before lunar injection
NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle could be orbiting the Earth for six days after it is docked with the Lunar Lander. There will also be three lunar orbit...
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NewsChina considers commercial Shenzhou flights
In the second quarter of 2008 a legal bill may be introduced into China's legislative chamber...
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NASA axes Rocketplane Kistler from cargo transport project and reopens funding bids
NASA has announced a new competition for a funded Space Act Agreement (SAA) worth $175 million for its $500...
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NewsNASA opens competition for $175 million in funds from terminated COTS agreement with Rocketplane Kistler
NASA expects to choose new COTS competitor in first quarter 2008 after selection process that starts next week
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NewsNASA terminates Rocketplane Kistler's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services demonstration space act agreement
NASA terminates Rocketplane Kistler's COTS agreement after a 30-day minimum formal notification period that saw the resignation of RpK's president Randy Brinkley
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NewsVIDEO: Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean talks exclusively to Flight
Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean spoke exclusively to Flightglobal.com about his NASA missions and more
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UK astronaut decision expected next year
As the world marked half a century of spaceflight in early October, the UK stood on the verge of making a historic decision to fully join the space age....
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo plans held up by testing accident
Work on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is in a hiatus while the investigation into July's fatal Scaled Composites accident continues. A California...
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This week briefing - 9 October 2007
P&W IN FRAME TO POWER MITSUBISHI MRJ SELECTION Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has reportedly selected Pratt...
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A 50 year timeline of spaceflight
4 October: Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the World's first orbiting artificial satellite 12 April: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is...
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NewsSPUTNIK 50: UK science minister green lights British astronaut missions study
A study into UK astronaut missions in the next decade is expecetd to be given the go-head by the UK government’s minister for science today
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Docking vehicle software compatible with ISS
The compatibility of the European Space Agency's final flight software version for its first Automatic Transfer Vehicle, Jules Verne, has been successfully...
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Comment - Only tourism can open up space travel
Only tourism can open the final frontier Space tourism is the only hope for the economic exploitation of space in the next 50 years. Half a century...
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Angara core booster prepared for 2008 test firing
Preparations for test firing the Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center's Angara rocket's common core booster (CCB) first stage...
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Russian space industry rises again
The Bear shines on ROB COPPINGER / LONDON Fifty years ago this week, Russia launched the first satellite spacecraft and began the space...
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India focuses on low-cost access to space
Development of low-cost access to space and "end-uses" such as communications navigation are to be the focus of a five-year, 60-mission programme planned...
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ULA Atlas V to form part of COTS challenge
United Launch Alliance's Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket could form part of a bid for funds from NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS)...