AFP - A group of US lawmakers Thursday urged the US administration to save NASA's Constellation project aimed at returning Americans to the moon in the next generation of space travel.
SPACE.com - MUNICH, Germany - The International Space Station
(ISS) partners have begun reviewing their on-board hardware with the goal of
certifying it for use until 2028 even as they seek ways to reduce the annual
operating costs of the orbital complex, the partners said in a joint statement Thursday.
AFP - The consortium of agencies building the International Space Station (ISS) wants to see if the orbital outpost can operate until 2028, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.
Reuters - American physicist Sally Ride achieved lasting fame in June 1983 when she became the first American woman to travel in space as a crew member of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON Space Exploration Technologies
(SpaceX) aborted the Falcon 9 medium-class rocket's first static fire test
March 9 just as the vehicle's nine main-stage engines were about to ignite for
a planned 3.5-second burn.
Reuters - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International Space Station.
AFP - The US space shuttle fleet can continue flying beyond NASA's September 30 deadline if the money is made available to keep it going, a US space agency official told reporters Tuesday.
SPACE.com - After
a decade of mystery, astronomers have now shown that a pair of white dwarf
stars spin around each other in just 5.4 minutes, making them the
fastest-orbiting and tightest binary star system ever found, the researchers
claim.
AP - With space shuttle retirement just months away, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday it wouldn't be hard to add more flights, provided the nation is willing to keep paying $200 million a month.
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON The chief of NASA's space shuttle program said
Tuesday that the agency could technically continue to fly its three aging
orbiters beyond their planned 2010 retirement if ordered to do so by President
Barack Obama and lawmakers. All it would take would be the extra funding needed
to pay for it.
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