Benefits of UK astronauts worth price, say space scientists
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Science & environment: UK must put British astronauts in space or risk missing out on significant scientific, economic and cultural benefits, say space experts.
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By David Singleton  The British space industry has brought in Bell Pottinger Public Affairs as it looks to persuade the Government to spend more on space exploration.   UKSpace, the trade association of the space industry, has appointed the agency following a three-way pitch.
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Astronauts from Europe and other nations could fly early to the space station to make ready new laboratories.
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The designers of the first privately manned rocket to burst into space have received a $US10 million ($A13 million) cheque, a prize designed to encourage technology that will open the heavens to tourists.
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I applaud Burt Rutan and the SpaceShipOne team for their miraculous achievement of winning the Ansari X Prize. As an astronaut, I understand well the challenges they faced in reaching suborbital space.
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The British team that built the space probe for Europe's doomed mission to Mars conceded Tuesday that any future ventures to the Red Planet should have better funding and detection systems for potential problems.
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By Steve Connor Sir Richard Branson yesterday defended his plans to offer [pound]100,000 trips into space while at the same time setting up a [pound]12.8m prize for scientists to devise a way of absorbing carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere.
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When it comes to complaining about poor exchange rates for the U.S. dollar, American tourists traveling to Europe have nothing on tourists headed into space. The cost of flying to the international space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spaceship has increased from $25 million earlier this year to $30 million. Trips planned in 2008 and 2009 will cost $40 million.
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The British team that built the space probe for Europe&#39;s doomed mission to Mars conceded Tuesday that any future ventures to the Red Planet should have better
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A new TIME/CNN survey finds that Asians strongly support spending on space exploration despite myriad other concerns facing their countries
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Tackling climate change will cost far less than the pessimists suggest, a British scientist says.
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The UK must play an active and central role in future human space missions, a report concludes.
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Astronauts have long known that space travel is a good way to diet. The excitement of launch. Thrilling vistas seen from Earth orbit. Floating weightless. Maybe a touch of motion sickness. Who can eat at a time like that?
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By Nolan Rosenkrans, Philadelphia Daily News  Feb. 23--Despite the remarkable technical feat of space travel and the high-level skills that astronauts need, being one isn't quite as prestigious as it used to be.
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UK astronomers are granted a temporary reprieve over their access to two of the world's finest telescopes.
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In the quest for a cheaper route to space, astronauts competing for the X Prize are willing to take risks. But some wonder if blasting off in an untested rocket ship suspended from a giant balloon is taking things too far. By Dan Brekke.
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Sir Richard Branson announces that he has signed an agreement to develop the world&#39;s first privately funded space travel. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA.