Global space congress looks to the future
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Fifty years after the launch of the first satellite, key players in the global space industry were to meet here from Monday to seek new ways to benefit humanity through space exploration.
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Scientists discuss their prefered targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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NASA officials held an international workshop last week in Washington DC, with representatives from China, the European Union, and 17 other countries to consider opportunities and possible collaborations
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Scientist assess the possibility of building giant solar panels in space in order to meet the planet's rising energy needs.
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Regardless, space competitions are poised to become big business.
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In speech for space agency's 50th anniversary, search giant chief lays out vision for a NASA that builds open systems, simple platforms, and spaceships that can talk to one another.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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LOS ANGELES - Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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Scientists discuss their preferred targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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Scientists from across the United Kingdom met in London last week to consider exploring space by the use of compact, low-cost satellites. U.K.
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The launch of &quot;Shenzhou IV&quot; manned spacecraft has been listed on the agenda next year, and the countdown for the relevant supporting work has also started.
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At a United Nations General Assembly meeting on Wednesday, China National Space Administration chief Sun Laiyan urged peaceful use of outer space and closer international space co-operation.
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With a green light from Congress, NASA is moving swiftly to carry out President George W. Bush&#39;s ambitious plan to return robots and humans to the moon and eventually to Mars.
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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BRECKENRIDGE, Colorado &#150; The deployment of space platforms that capture sunlight for beaming down electrical power to Earth is under review by the Pentagon, as a way to offer global energy and security benefits &#150;  including the prospect of short-circuiting future resource wars between increasingly energy-starved nations.
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To help pay for tomorrow's world-class observatories, astronomers are forging international partnerships.
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It was a staple of 1960s science fiction that the future would involve flying cars and holidays on the moon. While the mass-production flying car hasn&#39;t yet hit the showrooms, the prospects for space tourism have taken a few steps closer.