Astronauts and Cosmonauts

Celebrating the First Man in Space

By Merryl Azriel on April 12, 2012

The Huntsville Times reported on Yuri Gagarin's historic flight (Credits: NASA). On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.... Read more →

Press Releases

NASA Readies “Big Cheer” for Dragon Mission

By Staff Writers on April 12, 2012

A view inside the Dragon capsule that will be loacked with 1,200 tons of supplies for ISS (Credits: SpaceX). Source: NASA/Steven Siceloff The... Read more →

News

United Launch Alliance Forms Human Launch Services Unit

By Merryl Azriel on April 12, 2012

On April 9, United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced formation of a new organization focused on supporting NASA's human spaceflight... Read more →

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Newfangled space-propulsion technology could help clean up Earth orbit

By Staff Writers on April 11, 2012

In this artist’s conception, a magnetized beam of ionized plasma is applied to a spacecraft headed on an interplanetary journey. The same... Read more →

Nuclear Propulsion

Nuclear Space Propulsion Breakthrough from Russia

By Ines Hernandez on April 11, 2012

In 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (center) called for resources to build a nuclear-powered spaceship (Credits: RIA Novosti/AP). Russia... Read more →

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NASA to Fly Deep Space Atomic Clock to Improve Navigation Technology

By Staff Writers on April 10, 2012

A laboratory representation of the Deep Space Atomic Clock, with a quarter alongside the unit for size comparison (Credits: NASA/JPL). Source:... Read more →