Press Releases1

Former Astronauts Urge US Congress to Fund NASA’s Commercial Crew Program

By Staff Writers on November 10, 2011

  Logo for NASA's "C3PO" Commercial Crew Program. (Credits: NASA). In an open letter on November 7, 23 former NASA astronauts urged the... Read more →

Space Suit Design1

Virgin Galactic to Issue James Bond-style Flight Suits to Passengers

By Stavros Georgakas on November 9, 2011

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo in a test flight (Credits: Virgin Galactic). Source: Rob Coppinger, Space.com. Virgin Galactic, Richard... Read more →

News1

Russian Martian Probe Fails After Launch

By Joel Spark on November 9, 2011

After a successful launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 8, the unmanned Phobos-Grunt probe failed to fire its boosters to achieve the... Read more →

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Asteroid 2005 YU55 Makes Uneventful Closest Approach

By Merryl Azriel on November 9, 2011

Asteroid 2005 YU55 made its closest approach to Earth on November 8 at 10:28 PM GMT. According to NASA, the asteroid passed within 324,600 km of... Read more →

Debris Remediation

DARPA Phoenix Program to Recycle Space Debris

By Tereza Pultarova on November 8, 2011

The problem of space debris is becoming more and more acute. (Credits: impactlab.net). The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)... Read more →

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NASA Announces Orion Unmanned Test Flight

By Joel Spark on November 8, 2011

NASA managers have approved the Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) mission, which will consist of an unmanned flight of the Orion crew vehicle in... Read more →