Space
Finalists for 2007 Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, October 18, 2007 Source: X Prize Foundation Finalists for 2007 Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award Winners will be chosen during the X PRIZE Cup, October 26-28, Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, NM The ten finalists for the inaugural Pete Conrad* Spirit... Read more…
SpaceX Successfully Completes NASA Critical Design Review for First Commercial Transportation System to the International Space Station
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, October 18, 2007 Source: SpaceX SpaceX Successfully Completes NASA Critical Design Review for First Commercial Transportation System to the International Space Station SpaceX has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for its first Falcon 9 /... Read more…
Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: and the candidate missions are...
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Friday, October 19, 2007 Source: European Space Agency Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: and the candidate missions are... The first steps of the next great phase of European space science have been taken! Read more…
Critical Deep-Space Maneuver Targets MESSENGER for Its First Mercury Encounter
STATUS REPORT Date Released: Thursday, October 18, 2007 Source: Johns Hopkins University Critical Deep-Space Maneuver Targets MESSENGER for Its First Mercury Encounter The MESSENGER spacecraft delivered a critical deep-space maneuver on Wednesday - 155 million miles (250 million kilometers) from... Read more…
Senate Rejects Bid to Trim NASA Budget (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON ? As the U.S. Senate moved closer to voting on a spending bill that would give NASA an extra $1.15 billion for 2008, lawmakers rejected an amendment to trim $150 million from the U.S. space agency's budget to help states prosecute crimes committed by illegal aliens. Read more…
Potentially Dangerous Space Rock Lost, and Found (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - When I was an astronomy student at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, pioneer asteroid hunters Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and her husband Kees van Houten were about to retire, after very fruitful careers. Their legacy was the discovery of over 2000 asteroids, of which some 1800 yielded orbits, in collaboration with Prof. Tom Gehrels of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at Tucson, Arizona. ... Read more…
NASA drops deal with Rocketplane (AP)
AP - NASA said Thursday it dropped a multimillion-dollar contract with an aerospace company because the firm failed to secure enough private financing to develop a new commercial spaceship. Read more…
NASA to Open New Competition for Space Transportation Seed Money
NASA announced Thursday it will conduct a new competition for funding that remains in NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Project, known as COTS. Read more…
Web Coverage of Next Space Shuttle Mission
A prelaunch webcast, live blogs, podcasts, pictures and videos highlight NASA's Internet coverage of space shuttle Discovery's STS-120 mission to the International Space Station. Read more…
Space Shuttle Discovery Prelaunch Events
News conferences, events and operating hours for NASA's Kennedy Space Center News Center are set for the upcoming launch of space shuttle Discovery. Read more…