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October 09, 2005

Kids Say The Darndest Things At X-Cup Event

Blast Whaaaat?

As part of X-Prize Education Day, volunteer docents from the National Association for Rocketry (NAR) were teaching kids how to launch model rockets.

Blow To European And Russian Space Programs

A European Space Agency (ESA) designed to collect data on polar ice caps broke up in flight Saturday after the booster system on the converted Russian ballistic missile launch vehicle failed to ignite properly.

To Be Displayed At White Sands After 2008

by Aero-News Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. "Hognose" O'Brien Alamogordo, NM, October 7 -- PlanetSpace Corporation plans to launch paying customers into space in the Canadian Arrow suborbital spacecraft starting in 2007; the first manned launches will take place with professional astronauts aboard. When they begin to retire their reusable vehicles after several flights each, in 2008, they will restore one to resemble a V-2 and donate it to the White Sands Missile Range Museum.

Could Be Key To Post-Shuttle Space Travel

R2D2 may be a lot closer to reality than ever imagined, according to JSC Robotics Division Director Rob Ambrose. Speaking at a keynote session at the second annual RoboNexus conference in San Diego, Ambrose said NASA is developing sophisticated robotic machines that could perform almost any kind of task a person could do -- with far less risk.