U.S. Air Force Excited About Near-Space Prospects
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The U.S. Air Force could start operating aircraft in "near space," the no man's land above 65,000 feet but below an outer space orbit, within a year, a top U.S. Air Force space official said on Tuesday.
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NASA officials said today they were more optimistic about the possibilities for extricating some science from the battered Genesis space capsule.
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Now that rocketmen in the desert have soared into space and captured the St. Louis-based Ansari X Prize, commercial space travel seems as close as ever.
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Northrop Grumman Corp. and the Boeing Co. may work as a team in a competition to develop NASAâs project to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond, Northrop Grumman officials said this week.
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The US space agency, NASA, says work continues on safety improvements on the space shuttle design in anticipation of the shuttle&#39;s return to flight in 2005.
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SPACE.com / Top officials from NASA and China are meeting this week to gauge the prospects for potential partnerships in future space endeavors.
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The Air Force is scheduled to launch a new Delta 4 rocket on Saturday in a test that will help determine whether it can become a vehicle to carry billion-dollar military satellites.
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By Rona Marech, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 7--ROCKVILLE -- Pictures taken before Navy Capt. Lisa M. Nowak's space shuttle mission show her smiling and confident in an orange jumpsuit, with wavy tresses framing her face and an American flag and a model rocket ship behind her.
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NASA scientists and their colleagues at the European Space Agency await the first reports from their spacecraft and probe, which will pass closer to Saturn's icy moon than ever before.
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Regardless, space competitions are poised to become big business.
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The military shows its love for unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Scientists gather to discuss their preferred targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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Marion C. Blakey, administrator of commercial space transportation for the Federal Aviation Administration, speaks with reporters following a briefing at the XCOR hangar at Mojave, Calif.
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NASA said its systems were in good shape and the countdown was going well for Thursday's launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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For a U.S. military increasingly dependent on sophisticated satellites for communicating, gathering intelligence and guiding missiles, the possibility that those space-based systems could come under attack has become a growing worry -- and the perceived need to defend them ever more urgent. And...
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As UFO hype builds, a U.S. military base in the area changes its story.
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The looming U.S. Navy attempt to shoot down a dying satellite could demonstrate an anti-satellite capability for its missile defense system.