Sask. town keen but skeptical of space launch
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KINDERSLEY, Sask. - A representative from a team of Canadian engineers trying to send a privately funded rocket ship into space was in Saskatchewan on Wednesday to set up logistics for a launch that he hopes will happen within the next month.
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While entrepreneurs explore how to put ordinary folks into space, federal officials are pondering how to regulate the emerging commercial space industry.
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Iran's announcement that it launched a research rocket has called new attention to a space program that Tehran says is peaceful but which some fear aims to produce long-range ballistic missiles that could reach Europe or the United States.
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SASKATOON -- Transport Canada approved yesterday an application for a suborbital space launch by a Canadian team competing in an international race to put civilians into space.
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By A.J. Hostetler, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 7--Virginians might catch a glimpse of tonight's unusual nighttime  launching of the space shuttle Discovery, if it lifts off as planned.
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The shuttle Discovery is ready to roar, but poor weather might keep it on the ground today.
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The government says it will shoot down a dead spy satellite to protect public safety. But there's little real risk
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News PROMONTORY, Box Elder County -- Although many of the scores of watchers from NASA, the media and ATK Launch Systems had witnessed booster motor static firings in the past, Thursday's countdown brought a breathless silence from the spectators.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Ballistic missile defence, a mere political hiccup south of the border even in an American presidential year, is showing surprising strength as a topic of public debate in Canada.
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Commercial space flight doesn't offer too many opportunities for investors, but there is one tiny prospect.
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KINDERSLEY, SASK. - People in Kindersley, Sask., hope to get a clearer idea this week about the status of the da Vinci project, which aims to send the first Canadian rocket into space.
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REGINA (CP) - A Canadian team of engineers competing in an international race to put civilians into space has postponed its first stab at the &#36;10-million prize, leaving an anxious Saskatchewan community in the lurch.
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TOOELE, UTAH -- ItÂs not    the kind of "breaking news" that NASA wanted.
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Weather concerns are growing as NASA nears its scheduled launch of the shuttle Discovery.
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Space entrepreneurs say they believe they are on the brink of developing a vibrant tourism industry, but worry that government regulation may stifle it before it can take off.
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Should war move into space, the U.S. military has a plan. And not being an enemy doesn't necessarily mean your satellites and ground-control mechanisms aren't targets. By Noah Shachtman.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Washington is putting subtle, but real pressure on Canada to join a proposed missile defence system that won't work anyway, an American scientist says. Ted Postol, a physicist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says U.S. authorities warn that Canada will lose its say in continental defence if it takes a pass on the missile system.