National Aeronautics and Space Administration
On this day, 40 years back, man stepped on the moon
20 Jul 2009
Today, 20 July 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon walk when the American Apollo 11 mission became the first to land on the moon.
Northrop bags Space Fence project to monitor space debris
15 Jul 2009
Tracking and detecting the ever-proliferating space junk has now become a matter of urgency for all space-faring nations, particularly as space-related activities begin to mount in the coming years.
ESA, NASA to jointly explore Mars
11 Jul 2009
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have agreed to establish a road map for future Mars missions through the Mars Exploration Joint Initiative (MEJI) programme, which will define a string of lander and orbiter missions to the Red Planet.
NASA funds system to help aircraft avoid ocean storms
09 Jul 2009
With two tragic air incidents following hard on the heels of each other over the world’s oceans, comes some timely news from NASA which said it is funding development of a system designed to provide aircraft pilots with updates about severe storms and turbulence as they fly across remote ocean regions.
International Space Station takes on full staff of six
29 May 2009
For the first time in its history the international space station (ISS) has taken on a full complement of six astronauts with a Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three new space travellers docking at the orbiting complex on Friday.
Kepler beams back first images of star-packed galaxy
17 Apr 2009
NASA's Kepler mission has sent back its first images of a patch of sky where it will soon begin hunting for Earth-like planets.
Space junk: Clear and present danger
23 Mar 2009
With Nasa space missions dodging close calls from floating space junk in recent times, it’s now the turn of two Canadian satellites to try and survive the threat posed by these involuntary projectiles.
NASA puts Kepler space telescope in orbit
07 Mar 2009
NASA's Kepler mission to seek other earths
20 Feb 2009
Fully reusable 'spacejet' just 10 years away
20 Feb 2009
A high-tech spacecraft that can take off and land from an ordinary runway, and will slash the cost of flying to space, could be just 10 years away, according to its developers
NASA's new mission to search for water on moon
18 Feb 2009
Space crash destroys Iridium-owned satellite
12 Feb 2009
A US satellite crashed into a defunct Russian Cosmos — the first such collision between two intact spacecraft travelling at orbital speed destroys
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