ASTRONAUT GORDON COOPER DIES

Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) an original Mercury 7 astronaut, died earlier today at…

ISS STATUS REPORT: SS04-032

With less than a month remaining in their stay aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 9…

Space-tech – Paralympics – World Record

Wojtek Czyz running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record in Athens…

Mars Express latest findings

Recent results from the ASPERA-3 instrument on board Mars Express confirm that a very efficient process…

ATACAMA ROVER HELPS NASA

A dedicated team of scientists is spending the next four weeks in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert.…

SCIENTISTS REPORT THINNING OF ANTARCTIC GLACIERS

Glaciers in West Antarctica are shrinking at a rate substantially higher than observed in the 1990s.…

IAC in Vancouver

Vancouver, Canada, hosts the 55th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) from 4 to 8 October this year.…

First Galileo experimental satellite model

The structural model of the first of two experimental Galileo satellites to be launched in 2005,…

GLACIERS SURGE WHEN ICE SHELF BREAKS UP

Since 2002, when the Larsen B ice shelf broke away from the coast of the Antarctic…

The best view of all is our beautiful planet

You’re speeding through space at 28 000 kilometres per hour, at times the outside temperature gets…