Month: October 2006

The Stennis Space Center marked the passing of an era, an end of one long story in the U.S. space program and anticipation of a new chapter. At the largest...

North Korea announced it detonated a nuclear weapon, drawing strong protest from the United States, with President Bush vowing “an immediate response by the United Nations Security Council.” But he...

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] completed acoustic testing on the payload for the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellite, the company announced. Northrop will provide the payload to...

NASA ground crews discovered a hole in the Space Shuttle Atlantis right-hand payload bay door radiator. The hole, about a tenth of an inch in diameter, apparently resulted from something...

The launch of a satellite on the Soyuz vehicle, which was to have lifted off Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, has been postponed for several days, according to Starsem. Cause...

NASA extended a previous contract action with ATK Thiokol of Brigham City, Utah, to continue design and development of the first stage for the Ares I crew launch vehicle. The...

The Air Force and The Boeing Co. [BA] recently conducted the world’s first firing of a laser using recycled fuel at the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate, Boeing...

Missile defense funding accounts for only a minuscule fraction of total federal spending, the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) stated. While MDAA expressed gratitude to President Bush and Congress for...

A NASA scientist won the Nobel Prize for physics, NASA announced. The Nobel Prize Committee chose NASA scientist and Goddard Fellow John C. Mather to receive the 2006 prize. Mather...