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Backers of a failed mission to launch the world's first solar-sail spacecraft unveiled plans on Monday to try again five years later with a smaller, swifter satellite to test the limits of sunlight propulsion.
Atlantis' next mission will preposition big International Space Station spares for the post-shuttle era
When President Barack Obama stands Tuesday before the mourning children, spouses and comrades of those cut down last week at Fort Hood, he will confront one of the most delicate and painful duties a president undertakes.
When Barack Obama stands before the mourning children, spouses and comrades of those cut down last week at Fort Hood, he will confront one of the most delicate and painful duties a president undertakes.
Cal State Fullerton grad will spend six months on outpost.
A Soyuz rocket topped with the new Poisk module for the International Space Station took a train ride to historic Launch Pad No. 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday morning, two days before the new component begins its trek to the orbiting complex.
Where were you when the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago? I was a little over 1 year old, possibly in a crib, definitely blissfully ignorant of the changes taking place. I may have been alive for the end of the Cold War, but I don’t remember it.
Students who once had little to hope for success now study science
A former top NASA official was sentenced Friday to three years' probation, six months of electronic monitoring and a $2,500 fine for steering contract money to a private client.
The "NASA Space Adventures" exhibit at the Children’s Museum of Brownsville is stretching young minds this month.
Good news! NASA, after playing with the space shuttle for the last thirty years, has come out with a new experimental rocket, the Ares 1-X. My first thought is that it’s about time. They’ve been driving the space shuttle for a long, long time.
LAFAYETTE -- Ryan Elementary School is a science and math focus school, so teachers there attempt to weave the two subjects into students' daily instruction.
Anaheim-based Cristek Interconnects Inc. is preparing for expansion by leasing a factory in Massachusetts. The nearly 25-year-old company makes electronic connectors, which are used by the military and aerospace and biomedical companies to transfer signals from one device to another.
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In his 1865 novel “From the Earth to the Moon,” Jules Verne sent his explorers to the moon by firing them from a gigantic cannon from the west coast of Florida. He overlooked a few details, such as the fact that the acceleration of his cannonball-spaceship would have crushed the very fragile human passengers inside it, and the spacecraft itself would probably have burned to a cinder as it flew ...
HOUSTON The contractor that manages the space shuttle program from NASA will layoff 400 employees, including 160 from the area.
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