Nottingham UK (SPX) Dec 01, 2011 - The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have to up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge? Scientists at The University
Los Alamos, NM (SPX) Nov 30, 2011 - With the successful launch of the Mars Science Laboratory on Saturday, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers and scientists from the French space institute IRAP are poised to begin focusing the
Goodyear AZ (SPX) Nov 30, 2011 - NASA has repeatedly stated that its new mission to Mars, Curiosity, carries no life detector. Yet, Gilbert V. Levin, Experimenter on NASA's 1976 Viking Mission, disagrees. He says instruments aboard
Moscow (TV Novosti) Nov 28, 2011 - Russian space experts are struggling to decode fresh telemetry signals received from the stricken Phobos-Grunt probe. Meanwhile, rumors are circulating that America's ionosphere research site in Ala
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Nov 28, 2011 - While the future of Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe remains unclear, a team of experts from a space research institute in Moscow has arrived in the United States where NASA is about to launch its Curios
Moscow (AFP) Nov 26, 2011 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday evoked the executions of the Stalin era in a pre-election vow to punish those responsible for a recent string of costly space mishaps.
West Palm Beach, FL (SPX) Nov 26, 2011 - Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne demonstrated the consistent reliability of its power and propulsion systems by successfully boosting the Mars Science Laboratory rover, which will travel to the red plan
Cape Canaveral, FL (SPX) Nov 26, 2011 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft launched this morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. at 10:02 a.m. ET aboard an Atlas V-541 rocket provided by United Launch Alliance. The miss
Cape Canaveral, FL (SPX) Nov 26, 2011 - NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the Nov. 26 launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 26, 2011 - In preparing for positioning Opportunity for the coming winter, the project has been scouting sites with favorable northerly tilt on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 26, 2011 - The US space agency plans to launch on Saturday the most powerful and advanced robotic rover ever built to explore Mars and hunt for signs that life may once have existed on the red planet.
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 26, 2011 - NASA's Curiosity rover, the biggest, most sophisticated robotic explorer ever built, blasted off Saturday on a journey to Mars, where it will hunt for signs life once existed there.
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 25, 2011 - Russian specialists have deciphered telemetry data received from a wayward Mars probe, but have yet to find out the cause of its erratic behavior, a space industry source said on Thursday. So
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 25, 2011 - Following the first successful contact on Tuesday, ESA's tracking station in Australia again established two-way communication with Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft on 23 November. The data received
Paris (AFP) Nov 25, 2011 - The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday it had been unable to establish a new link with Russia's stricken Mars probe but added that the craft's orbit seemed to have become more stable.
Windsor Locks CT (SPX) Nov 24, 2011 - When the Mars Science Laboratory embarks on its voyage to Mars on Nov. 25, Hamilton Sundstrand Rocketdyne products will be onboard to make the mission possible. Curiosity, about the size of a Mini C
