SpaceX plans to launch two paying passengers on a tourist trip around the moon next year using a spaceship under development for NASA astronauts and a heavy-lift rocket yet to be flown, the launch company announced on Monday.
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Obesity experts Friday applauded Walt Disney World for shuttering a new attraction that drew fierce criticism for its potential to shame overweight children and misrepresent the causes of the global obesity crisis. “I think they (Disney) likely (...)
Is it too late for another Republican to jump into the 2012 US presidential race?
Mitt Romney is riding high in Florida and threatening to take charge of the Republican nomination with a win in Tuesday's primary there.
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A private company will make a trial cargo run to the International Space Station in February, a key step in a new US program to buy spaceflight services on a commercial basis, NASA said Friday.
California-based Space Exploration Technologies, or (...)
A defunct NASA science satellite dispatched by a space shuttle crew in 1991 will come crashing back to Earth this month, with debris most likely landing in an ocean or unpopulated region, officials said Friday.
The Upper Atmosphere Research (...)
NASA astronauts attached a Russian docking and research module onto the International Space Station Tuesday, bringing the $100 billion complex to near completion.
The compartment, known as Rassvet - Russian for “dawn” - was delivered aboard shuttle (...)
A suborbital spaceship owned by aspiring space tourism operator Virgin Galactic was airlifted into the skies over California's Mojave Desert Monday for its debut test flight.
The sleek, six-passenger ship, called VSS Enterprise, remained attached (...)
Golfer Tiger Woods, engulfed in speculation over his private life after a car accident in the middle of the night, apologized Wednesday for “transgressions” in a statement that apparently addressed allegations he had extra-marital (...)
Golf star Tiger Woods accepted responsibility on Sunday for the car accident that took place outside his Florida home and again canceled an interview with authorities investigating the incident.
The world's top golfer said he wanted to keep the (...)
NASA, which has tiptoed into the new world of social media with Twittering astronauts and Facebooking rovers, is taking the next step with an invitation to “the twedia” to cover a space shuttle launch.
There are so many details to work out that the (...)