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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.
Competition aims to make space elevators more than science fiction fantasy.
A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators. The highly...
Addressing Congress on May 25, 1961, President John Kennedy famously challenged the United States to land a man on the moon and bring him home safely. At the time, America — locked in an arms race with the Soviet Union, bursting with national pride, and looking starry-eyed toward the cosmos — was easily convinced of the moon’s profound importance.
Astronaut and 'Terrible Towel' Return to Pittsburgh
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The NASA astronauts scheduled for the STS-129 mission to the International Space Station practiced procedures Tuesday aboard space shuttle Atlantis.
In August of this year I wrote a missive concerning what happens after the Augustine report is released. Well, now that has happened, so what is next?
A battle flag that traveled to Iowa with a Union soldier at the end of the Civil War will soon be taking a $75,000 trip home to South Carolina. The red palmetto flag -- believed to be the one that flew over Morris Island on Jan. 9, 1861, when a battery of Citadel cadets fired on the supply ship Star of the West -- will require special and expensive care, said Ted Curtis, a 1964 Citadel graduate ...
Mr. Qian was a brilliant rocket scientist who led China’s space and military rocketry efforts after he was drummed out of the U.S. during the redbaiting of the McCarthy era.
The biggest problem is the weight of the cable. No material known is strong enough, yet light enough. Carbon nano-tubes might work, but … read more there is not a current way to make any longer than a few millimeters, let alone hundreds of miles long. Great idea though, and it can be done!
In August of this year I wrote a missive concerning what happens after the Augustine report is released. Well, now that has happened, so what is next? The overall impression is that they did a good job technically in coming up with options and laying out the rational for the options.
Approximately 300 guests gathered to celebrate the varied paths and life journeys of University of Houston-Clear Lake’s 50,000 alumni and to honor two new Distinguished Alumni as well as recipients of Early Achievement and Outstanding Professor Awards during the annual Alumni Celebration.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- There are 160 people out of work in Brevard County Wednesday. DRS Technologies in Melbourne and Palm Bay cut its workforce Tuesday.
The increasing risk to the space shuttle and other space craft orbiting Earth from orbiting junk could be mitigated by a system similar to that used to track birds.
Boaz Intermediate School fifth graders Cristina Ramirez and Noah Williams reached out and touched the NASA space shuttle Discovery on Wednesday. Sure, it was a 1/25th scale model of the shuttle, but the two students appeared genuinely impressed.
Allan McDonald, author of “Truth, Lies and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster,” addresses an audience Wednesday at Western Kentucky University’s Hardin Planetarium.
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