Science news articles about 'space mission'

... University of Leicester are on target to design, build and launch a student satellite on a real space mission. They have taken delivery of the main body of the satellite donated by Loughborough-based ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will launch its third manned space mission in October with a crew of three, state media said on Thursday of the latest milestone in an ambitious space program.

BEIJING (AP) -- China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said....

(AP) -- China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said.

China's third manned space mission is on schedule for a Thursday launch, space agency officials said Wednesday.

... with Cambridge University's spaceflight student club.The space mission, aiming to get pupils excited ... and nine minutes in flight, reaching near space, above 99% of the Earth's atmosphere. They endured ...

HOUSTON, March 12 (UPI) -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists say two recent U.S. space missions have produced discoveries concerning salmonella bacteria.

... The Department of Energy plans to restart its program of making radioactive fuel for NASA's deep space missions, the agency announced Thursday, a decision that came only hours ...

... ESA's Directorate of Human Spaceflight is once again giving European citizens the opportunity to be part of a space mission by suggesting a name for ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang's mission to the ...

... -ice, or ALICE, propellant might be used to launch rockets into orbit and for long-distance space missions and also to generate hydrogen for fuel cells, said Steven Son, an associate professor of ...

... National Geographic has plotted the route of every space mission carried out over the last 50 years ... water.) Did you know there have been three more missions to Venus more than Mars (43 to 40)? Check ...

... week dedicated to the early results of the CoRoT space mission [1]. The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation ... successors are already on their way: the NASA Kepler mission, a super CoRoT devoted to finding Earth ...

The human race will find life elsewhere in the universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, astronauts back from the latest US space mission said Monday.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it has selected six mission proposals for further evaluation as part of its Small Explorer space program.

... of the International Space Station for radiation testing. Such transistors could prove helpful on long space missions, such as NASA's current Phoenix Mars Mission, since early experiments on Earth ...