Space

Germany may send an unmanned spacecraft to orbit the moon within five years, though no manned mission is planned at this time, DW-World.DE reported. No final decision has been made […]

But Some Systems Might Be Cost-Effective For Limited Missions Placing weapons in space or installing systems in orbit to defend space assets such as satellites from attack could be inordinately […]

Space Shuttle Discovery is poised to wrap up the long 15-day STS-120 mission with a landing just after 1 p.m. ET Wednesday, capping a challenging spacewalk in which physician- astronaut […]

House and Senate lawmakers are considering cutting only $85 million from a $310 million funding request by President Bush for the planned European Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) program, a […]

NASA Sorely Underfunded, Needs Far More Money: Douglass U.S. preeminence in space is fading because NASA is being starved of funding it urgently requires, and that may mean some other […]

Israel To Face Threat If China Sells Advanced Fighters, Missiles, To Iran Israel will face a serious new threat if China, as rumored, sells advanced long-range Chengdu J-10 fighter aircraft […]

Thermal protection heat tiles on Space Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis have been found solid in inspections, Wayne Hale, space shuttle program manager said in a NASA briefing today. Discovery, now […]

Defense Secretary Gates In China To Question Chinese Military Buildup Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates is in China, where he will attempt to get Chinese leaders to explain why […]

New Navy Missile Launcher Tested, So Conventional Missiles Work In Submarines The Navy is developing a new type of missile launcher that would permit using conventional missiles including Army weapons […]

Experts said outsiders can’t accurately assess just when a secretive Iran might develop a nuclear bomb, and also said it is unclear just when Iran might gain a workable nuclear […]