Sparkling Space Shuttle Endeavour Set To Launch Aug. 7, Phoenix On Friday Space Shuttle Endeavour received an enthusiastic thumbs-up during a pre-flight readiness review, with NASA officials giving the spaceship...
An explosion ripped a remote area of the Mojave, Calif., installation of Scaled Composites, the firm that built the pioneering Space Ship One, according to wire reports. The blast last...
ABL Scores Again In Further Testing The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system had a great week in which the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) wiped away the threat...
Lawmakers Vote To Cut $139 Million From European BMD The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a sole-source contract worth up to $80 million to conduct activation...
Sabotage was found in two computer gear components made for the International Space Station, and separately, a study committee heard allegations that astronauts were intoxicated before scheduled flights but whistleblowers...
Presidential candidates and officeholders of both parties roundly condemned as a serious threat moves by Iran to deploy advanced missiles and to produce nuclear materials, in statements from the solons...
NASA carefully studied the potential risks that might be created today when International Space Station (ISS) Astronaut Clay Anderson lobs hugely heavy, unneeded components into the void of space, deciding...
North Korea may become a permanent nuclear-power state by the time a newly elected U.S. president takes the oath of office in January 2009, some 18 months hence, according to...
A group of former Northrop Corp. engineers who worked on the Apollo moon landing program said exhaustive testing of failure causes, multiple redundancies in systems, and a driven desire to...