MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY

NASA has selected eight proposals to provide instrumentation and associated science investigations for the mobile Mars…

A chance to imagine the future

Budding writers and artists have another opportunity to describe their vision of the future in space…

Tokyo from Space

This Envisat radar image delineates the extent of Tokyo, the largest urban agglomeration in the world.…

SPACE SHUTTLE MILESTONE: ENGINES

NASA completed installation this week of the three main engines that will help launch Space Shuttle…

Arctic Space Launchers

European launchers have come to be associated with French Guiana – powerful large rockets that lift-off…

CSA Astronaut Bob Thirsk selected

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Bob Thirsk has been selected as a backup mission specialist and is…

Roberto Vittori to fly to the ISS

ESA PR 64-2004. Roberto Vittori will be the next ESA astronaut to fly to the International…

European and Chinese space cooperation

China’s Prime Minister Jiabao Wen visited ESA’s research and technology centre (ESTEC), in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.…

EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEMS

Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided…

ADMINISTRATOR SEAN O’KEEFE RESIGNS

Administrator Sean O’Keefe, who over the past three years led the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…