Lockheed Martin Readies Historic Operations & Checkout Facility for New Orion Spacecraft Integration Work.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- After a two-year, top to bottom renovation, the High Bay Facility of the Operations & Checkout (O&C) Building at NASA'S Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is now ready to begin preparations to build the new Orion crew exploration vehicle -- the flagship of...

Former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin National Space Trophy Winner.
HOUSTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Foundation's National Board of Advisors has selected former NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin to receive its highest honor, the National Space Trophy. The award has been presented annually for the past 23 years to an individual...

Hermes Spacecraft May Offer Personal Space Travel.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-21 August 2008-Hermes Spacecraft May Offer Personal Space Travel(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Like many Americans coming of age during the time of the Apollo missions, Morris Jarvis dreamed of someday blasting off into space. As a child he sat glued to...

China's astronauts reach orbit, brace for spacewalk.
BEIJING (AP) - China's three-man spacecraft shifted from an oval orbit to a more stable circular orbit 213 miles (343 kilometers) above Earth on Friday in preparation for the country's first attempt at a spacewalk.The spacewalk is scheduled to take place at about Saturday afternoon, although the exact timing...

Company Watch - NASA.
Nov 23, 2008 NASA has successfully transmitted images across some 20 million miles of space with a type of "interplanetary Internet" using a software protocol developed in cooperation with Google. Disruption-tolerant networking allows nodes on various satellites and spacecraft to store data packets until the next node...

Aerospace & Defense News - Space.
Dec 14, 2008 Dragonlab Space Exploration Technologies' Dragonlab, an unmanned science research version of its recoverable Dragon spacecraft designed to carry experiments in orbit for up to two years, has attracted enough customer demand to fly in 2010 and 2011, says SpaceX. Dec 9, 2008...

Aerospace & Defense News - Space.
Nov 24, 2008 NASA NASA has successfully transmitted images across some 20 million miles of space with a type of "interplanetary Internet" using a software protocol developed in cooperation with Google. Disruption-tolerant networking allows nodes on various satellites and spacecraft to store data packets until...

Voyager 2 reports from the edge: bubble surrounding solar system seems to be lopsided.
There are no signs to announce the edge of the solar system, but when the venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft approached this final frontier last August 31, it was in for quite a shock. So were the scientists who analyzed the data radioed back to Earth. The signals...

Kennedy Space Center Chooses SRA for Constellation Launch Control Systems.
SRA-built Spacecraft Command Language provides cost savings, modernization to NASA launch control systems FAIRFAX, Va., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SRA International, Inc. , a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to government organizations and commercial clients, today announced that NASA Kennedy Space Center...

Aerospace & Defense News - Space.
Business & Industry News: Aerospace & Defense News - Space Nov 3, 2008 Space shuttle Endeavour will return to the International Space Station Nov. 14, NASA announced on Thursday, while a rescue mission for the Hubble Space Telescope was pushed back to late spring. The...