The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, on May 26, 2011, in Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The rover was shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space...

So, Elon Musk and his brainchild SpaceX made it. Again. Big Kudos to him. He launched and recovered the Dragon spacecraft atop the Falcon 9 launcher. The Dragon capsule, that, despite the name, has no...

BEIJING - China has finished construction of its first module of unmanned space station, Tiangong-1, and it is testing its electronic, mechanical and thermal properties, a military source said Tuesday...

In some sense, Glenn's position echoes what many said at the end of the Apollo program--the ridiculously successful enterprise that put men on the moon. At the end of Apollo, everything was scrapped...

The X-37B sits on top of an Atlas V rocket Somewhere above earth is America’s latest spaceship, a 30ft craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much...

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The new astronaut recruits are split between fighter pilots (the men) and military transport pilots (the women). Earlier this year, Chinese space officials said that one requirement for China's first...

The newspaper reported that Wang Chun’s over 10-year work mainly engaged in aircraft structural design, and involved the development of J-10 and FC-1 fighters. He also made great contributions for one...

The STS-131 crew snapped this image as space shuttle Discovery remained docked with the International Space Station. The Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module can be seen in Discovery’s payload bay...

Yesterday I attended a fascinating talk by Hojun Song on his Open Source Satellite Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to enable everyone to launch a satellite by finding low-cost alternatives...

Hojun Song is a Korean artist whose project is to launch a satellite in low earth orbit. The satellite, built by Hojun using open source design and technology, will display Morse-coded messages visible...

Last week two important events happened in the aviation world, one in Us and one in Europe. First, Bertrand Piccard's Solar Impulse made the first flight on the 3rd of December, albeit a meter off the...