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Two of the world's most notable amateur rocket launches have been in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

Pictures from a Nasa mission reveal new glimpses of a world as fantastic as any imagined by a science-fiction writer Victoria crater, an impact crater at Meridiani Planum, near the equator of Mars.

Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 14:51. Forty years ago this month, two humans stepped onto the cratered surface of the moon for the first time.

Media representatives are invited to the Canadian Space Agency to follow the launch.

When U.S. astronauts stepped onto the moon on July 20, 1969, their voyage was about exploration, discovery and pushing the boundaries of known technology.

Canadian astronaut Julie Payette will be launched into space Saturday for the second time in her career when she boards the space shuttle Endeavour - if the weather co-operates, that is.

The University of Colorado-Boulder has received a $42 million contract from NASA to develop an instrument that will orbit Earth to monitor changes in the sun's radiation and help evaluate climate change.

A Florida attorney says a couple who were rocketed into the public eye because of ex-astronaut Lisa Nowak are getting married.

General Dynamics is opening a center for satellite tracking, telemetry and space communications at New Mexico State University's research park to work on national space and satellite programs.

On June 27, 2009, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space during a spectacular launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

On 29 and 30 June the ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, David Southwood, met NASA's Associate Administrator for Science, Ed Weiler, in Plymouth, UK, to establish a way for a progressive programme for exploration of the Red Planet.

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon.

A still from a video filmed at the mission landing site which shows worm movement.

Former astronaut Charles Bolden, picked by President Barack Obama to become the next NASA administrator, told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency must re-ignite American interest in the space program, akin to the excitement over the moon landing and even the initial shuttle years.

In two separate scientific papers, the most recent of which appears in the July 10 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters , the astrophysicists show that this distribution of gamma rays can be explained by the way "antimatter positrons" from the radioactive decay of elements, created by massive star explosions in the galaxy, propagate through ...

Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thick older ice shrinking by the equivalent of Alaska's land area, a study using data from a NASA satellite showed.

CHINA could launch its first woman into space as early as 2012, state media reported on Thursday.

This method has the potential to allow astronomers to study some of the very first supernovae and will advance the understanding of how galaxies form, how they change over time and how Earth came to be.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Source: NASA HQ - Comments WASHINGTON -- On Thursday, July 16, at 1 p.m. EDT, NASA will host a roundtable discussion titled "Apollo: History and Legacy," to mark the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11.

The crew of space shuttle Endeavour, from left, flight engineer Timothy Kopra, mission specialist's Thomas Marshburn and Christopher Cassidy, commander Mark Polansky, mission specialist David Wolf, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette and pilot Douglas Hurley arrive at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Cananveral, Fla., Tuesday, July 7, ...