The American company Aerojet plans to sign a contract for the purchase of rocket engines NK-33. They planned to equip the first stage of the launcher Taurus II. The publication notes that the engine NK-33 was developed for the Soviet lunar program designer, Nikolai Kuznetsov 40 years ago..

Today in Moscow inside of the annual event «Forum on satellite navigation and the business program of the VII International Industrial Forum GEOFORM + 2010» start the scientific conference Modern Geotechnology: New Opportunities for Business and Management..

The SpaceX company announced that they will be able to sell spaceflight cheaper than $ 50 million. It is the same price for the Soyuz spacecraft . About the new proposal says SpaceX New Scientist..

Today at Baikonur test training facility by Gagarin main and backup crews of «Soyuz TMA-18» Skvortsov, M. Kornienko, T.Kolduel-Dyson, A. Samokutyaev, A. Borisenko and S. Kelley raised the nations flags — participants of space flight. This astronauts tradition appeared a long time ago and was never broken..

The company Virgin Galactic, on Monday, March 22, conducted the first flight test SpaceshipTwo — ship for space tourists, reports AFP..

Russian Proton-M, launched on Saturday, March 20, from the Baikonur cosmodrome put into orbit an American communications satellite EchoStar-14, ITAR-Tass on Sunday morning, March 21..

In 2012 Russia will again organize tourist flights into space. It is reported by Interfax, citing a source in the missile-space industry..

The descent module of Soyuz TMA-16 landed near the town of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan.

Following positive launch readiness conclusion by the State Commission last night, Proton-M/Echostar-14 was rolled out early this morning from the prop filling station to launch pad 200, Baikonur..

Private company Bigelow Aerospace start hiring astronauts for future work in space hotel or on the space station. Vacancy Announcement is available on the website of the company..

Space rocket Proton-M with the «Breeze-M» booster and spacecraft "EchoStar-14 is completing the prelaunch, scheduled for the processing facility site 92 cosmodrome, and is preparing to export to the launch facility..

Checking engine of private launcher Falcon-9 first-stage, was successful. Portal Universe Today reported.

Specialists have prepared all over the world special landing polygons for Soyuz TMA-16..

Specialists wich serving spaceport in Florida, found a technical defect, which may cause move launch of the shuttle Discovery, scheduled for April 5..

The primary and backup crews of the new expedition to the ISS passed the first series of tests before the flight to the space station. The results of the examinations on the site Roskosmos..

Members of the ISS project have decided to extend the work station until 2020..

Start of private launcher, heavy-duty Falcon-9 failed. The launch was scheduled for 9 March, 13:30 local time (21:30 Moscow time), but the main engines had not been started..

National Aerospace Agency of the U.S. on Thursday, March 4, launched the latest meteorological satellite.

China postponed its orbiting space station Tyangun-1 (Tiangong-1), whose title translates as «Heavenly Palace»..

The probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) took pictures of a field of craters on Mars. Description and images available on the project site. Photo (1.2 MB) in high resolution can be found here..