U.S. Concedes Nothing To Russians On Hot Issue After Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice journeyed all the way to suburban Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave them not even a crumb of approval for their plan to have the United States install a ...

Mission Delay Of Weeks, Months Possible If Shields Replaced With the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery little more than a week away, NASA experts have recommended replacing three heat-shielding panels on the orbiter vehicle, a move that might delay for weeks or months the shuttle launch now set ...

First Female Commander Piped Aboard International Space Station NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) to begin her tenure as the first woman to command a station mission, two days after a flawless liftoff in a Soyuz spacecraft. When Whitson returns home in ...

2007 Oct. 23 + STS-120 STS-120 will be the twenty-third mission to the International Space Station and will deliver the U.S. Node 2 Harmony module expanding the space station's capability for future international laboratories. Launch Time: 11:38 a.m. EDT Dec. 6 + STS-122 STS-122 will deliver ...

Beam me down, Scotty - that is, beam me down an unlimited amount of electrical power to meet an enormous future world energy demand -- all without creating one bit of greenhouse gases, global warming or carbon fuel usage. Sound too spacey Actually, several experts - sober and serious - say it can ...

By Michael Sirak The Air Force picked The Boeing Co. [BA] to develop sensor technologies for the air-launched dual-role missile that the service envisions to deal both with hostile aircraft and ground targets in coming decades, the company said. Under a $600,000 contract with the Air Force ...

The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, or CRADA, to investigate improvements to integrated air and missile defense mission effectiveness. Under the five-year agreement, Raytheon will develop and implement a series of simulations-based investigations that ...

The high-powered missile-killing laser at the heart of the Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense system is being installed in its platform, a highly modified Boeing 747-400F, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. Separately, an illuminator laser in the ABL system that tracks enemy ...

The Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] -- Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) team was the first to successfully complete the last in a series of verification tests of its next generation processor router (NGPR), the companies announced. The test was ...

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Cessna Aircraft investigators are probing the Oct. 7 crash of a Cessna Caravan 208 that killed 10 people returning from a skydiving event. The single-pilot aircraft ferrying nine skydivers from Star, Idaho, to ...