Global Space News

In this artist's drawing, Boeing's commercial crew transport, the CST-100, which is currently in development, approaches the International Space Station. The global space economy is on the rise, according to a new U. S. Space Foundation study. Image Credit/Boeing
The space economy is growing on a global scale, reaching $289.8 billion in 2011, representing a 12...

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Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world, including a look back at weekend activities. A tough economy challenges, perhaps threatens, future...

Earthrise in black and white, the first picture of Earth taken by a human in orbit around the moon, is presented with the horizon oriented vertically because that is how the astronauts described seeing it. Credit: NASA
In honor of Earth Day 2012, NASA has issued a visualization that draws upon richly detailed maps of the Moon’s surface made from data gathered by...

This image obtained by the framing camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows giant asteroid Vesta. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/
A new private firm has been established, one that has set their trajectory on mining the treasure trove of available space resources.
Next week, the key spark plugs behind Planetary Resources, Inc. are set to discuss...

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Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. Russia readies a new Progress supply ship for launch to the International Space Station. The Pentagon...

Enterprise, left, and Discovery come nose to nose at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center on Thursday. Ownership of Discovery was transferred from NASA to the Air and Space Museum. Enterprise will leave Udvar Hazy for the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. Photo Credit/NASA
Orbiter Discovery now belongs to the...

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Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. In Washington, House and Senate appropriators look to cuts in NASA’s proposed commercial crew...

An artist's conception of the SpaceX Dragon. Photo Credit/SpaceX
NASA and SpaceX, of Hawthorne, are aiming for an April 30 lift off of the first U. S. commercial re-supply mission to the International Space Station.
The space agency’s six year-old Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program was initiated to foster private sector cargo and eventually crew...

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Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. In Washington, a U.S. Senate appropriations panel agrees to add $100 million to NASA’s Mars...

Discovery touches down at Dulles International Airport after a rousing Washington D. C. flyover. Photo Credit/NASA TV
NASA’s shuttle orbiter Discovery reached her new home port on Tuesday, the nation’s capital, following a four hour ferry flight atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft that featured a fly over of the...



























