News

MDA Acquires Loral Space Satellite Unit

By Merryl Azriel on June 28, 2012

MDA's Canadarm flew for the first time on Space Shuttle mission STS-2, Nov. 1981 (Credits: NASA). MacDonald, Dettwile & Associates (MDA) has... Read more →

Press Releases

Expedition 31 to End with Crew Departure July 1

By Staff Writers on June 28, 2012

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko (center), Expedition 31 commander; along with NASA astronaut Don Pettit (left) and European Space Agency astronaut... Read more →

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Moon Landing or One Hit Wonder?

By Staff Writers on June 28, 2012

On June 27, the well-known comic xkcd which is written by ex-NASA robotics engineer Randall Munroe and self-identifies as "a webcomic of romance,... Read more →

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Chinese President Hu Jintao Calls Space Lab

By Staff Writers on June 27, 2012

Chinese President Hu Jintao talks with three Chinese astronauts who are conducting scientific tests aboard the Tiangong-1 space lab module from the... Read more →

Press Releases

US-UK Collaborate on Space Weather

By Staff Writers on June 27, 2012

Artist's rendition of spacecraft being impacted by Space weather (Credits: ESA). On June 26, the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir John... Read more →

Deep Space Exploration

Approaching a New Era of Space Exploration: Interstellar Travel

By Stavros Georgakas on June 27, 2012

Recent data from Voyager 1 have led NASA scientists to believe that the deep-space probe has reached a region where charged particles from beyond... Read more →