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Launch Set For 7:38 ET Friday Evening NASA leaders expressed confidence that repairs to the storm-damaged Space Shuttle Atlantis external fuel tank are sound, and the spaceship likely will have...

Russia claims it has a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can penetrate any ballistic missile shield, after a test launch of the new weapon went zooming across the Eurasian...

U.S. missile defense and space efforts, along with a vast array of defense programs, are being shortchanged unrelentingly by a government starved of the income it requires to meet critical...

NASA and other space agencies released a plan for coordinated exploration of space. The American space agency was joined by those of 13 other nations as they continued space exploration...

PAC-3 Missile Variant Unsuccessful In Recent Test By Ann Roosevelt A development test last month of a new Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] Patriot PAC-3 missile variant experienced an anomaly in...

If it can work for missile defense interceptors, why not on manned spaceships? NASA gave Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. company, a five year contract to develop technology for a rocket-powered...

Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took a spacewalk to install panels to help shield a service module from micro-meteoroids. ISS Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg...

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) notified TerreStar Networks Inc. that delivery of the TerreStar-1 satellite has been delayed by 10 months, with a new delivery date scheduled for August 2008, TerreStar announced....

Space agencies from around the globe have agreed on a shared long-term view of space exploration.   "The Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Coordination,” was released May 31 by...