Manned Moon Shot Possible by 2020
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 06, 2012
A crewed mission to the moon is possible by 2020, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Thursday.
"Today science is ripe for using the moon. I think that by 2020 a man will land on the moon," Popovkin said.
He also said Russia's previously announced cosmonaut recruitment drive will focus on preparing
Elements of ExoPlanets
Moffet Field CA (NASA) Feb 06, 2012
Trace elements in stars may influence the evolution of habitable zones around them where life as we know it might dwell, scientists now find.
Stars are made nearly entirely from hydrogen and helium gas. Still, traces of heavier elements - which astronomers call metals, even if they are not what one normally think of as metals - can be found in stars as well, either inherited from the remai
Russia May Run Repeat Mission to Phobos
Voronezh, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 06, 2012
Russia will send another sample mission to the Martian moon Phobos if the European Space Agency (ESA) decides not to include Russia in its ExoMars program, the head of Russia's space agency said on Tuesday.
Phobos-Grunt, Russia's most ambitious planetary mission in decades, was launched on November 9, however, it was lost due to propulsion failure and fell back to Earth on January 15.
The discovery of deceleration
Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 06, 2012
Pulsars are among the most exotic celestial bodies known. They have diameters of about 20 kilometres, but at the same time roughly the mass of our sun. A sugar-cube sized piece of its ultra-compact matter on the Earth would weigh hundreds of millions of tons. A sub-class of them, known as millisecond pulsars, spin up to several hundred times per second around their own axes.
Previous studi
Engine Failure Behind Meridian Satellite Crash
Voronezh, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 06, 2012
The crash of Russia's Meridian communication satellite late last year was caused by the destruction of one of the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket's engines, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Tuesday.
"An inter-agency commission has concluded that the reason was an early opening of the combustion section of the rocket's third stage," Popovkin said during a meetin
Juno Spacecraft Refines its Path to Jupiter
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2012
NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the mission's first trajectory correction maneuver. The maneuver took place on Feb. 1. It is the first of a dozen planned rocket firings that, over the next five years, will keep Juno on course for its rendezvous with Jupiter.
"We had a maneuver planned soon after launch but our Atlas V rocket gave us
A pocket of star formation
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 06, 2012
NGC 3324 is located in the southern constellation of Carina (The Keel, part of Jason's ship the Argo) roughly 7500 light-years from Earth. It is on the northern outskirts of the chaotic environment of the Carina Nebula, which has been sculpted by many other pockets of star formation ( a href="http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0905/">eso0905 /a>).
A rich deposit of gas and dust in the NGC 3
NASA Spacecraft Reveals New Observations of Interstellar Matter
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2012
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has captured the best and most complete glimpse yet of what lies beyond the solar system. The new measurements give clues about how and where our solar system formed, the forces that physically shape our solar system, and the history of other stars in the Milky Way.
The Earth-orbiting spacecraft observed four separate types of atoms including hy
Lavrov to Discuss Space, Nuclear Cooperation in Australia
Sydney, Australia (RIA Novosti) Feb 06, 2012
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss bilateral cooperation in high-tech industries, including space and nuclear power, during his one-day working visit to Australia on Tuesday.
The visit marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries. "Moscow regards Australia as an important and prospective partner in the fast-developing Asia-Pa
How Do You Fight Fire in Space?
San Diego CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2012
Improving fire-fighting techniques in space and getting a better understanding of fuel combustion here on Earth are the focus of a series of experiments on the International Space Station, led by a professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. to A first round of experiments ran from March 2009 to December 2011. A second round kicked off in January and
A crewed mission to the moon is possible by 2020, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Thursday.
"Today science is ripe for using the moon. I think that by 2020 a man will land on the moon," Popovkin said.
He also said Russia's previously announced cosmonaut recruitment drive will focus on preparing 
Trace elements in stars may influence the evolution of habitable zones around them where life as we know it might dwell, scientists now find.
Stars are made nearly entirely from hydrogen and helium gas. Still, traces of heavier elements - which astronomers call metals, even if they are not what one normally think of as metals - can be found in stars as well, either inherited from the remai 
Russia will send another sample mission to the Martian moon Phobos if the European Space Agency (ESA) decides not to include Russia in its ExoMars program, the head of Russia's space agency said on Tuesday.
Phobos-Grunt, Russia's most ambitious planetary mission in decades, was launched on November 9, however, it was lost due to propulsion failure and fell back to Earth on January 15. 
Pulsars are among the most exotic celestial bodies known. They have diameters of about 20 kilometres, but at the same time roughly the mass of our sun. A sugar-cube sized piece of its ultra-compact matter on the Earth would weigh hundreds of millions of tons. A sub-class of them, known as millisecond pulsars, spin up to several hundred times per second around their own axes.
Previous studi 
The crash of Russia's Meridian communication satellite late last year was caused by the destruction of one of the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket's engines, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Tuesday.
"An inter-agency commission has concluded that the reason was an early opening of the combustion section of the rocket's third stage," Popovkin said during a meetin 
NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the mission's first trajectory correction maneuver. The maneuver took place on Feb. 1. It is the first of a dozen planned rocket firings that, over the next five years, will keep Juno on course for its rendezvous with Jupiter.
"We had a maneuver planned soon after launch but our Atlas V rocket gave us 
NGC 3324 is located in the southern constellation of Carina (The Keel, part of Jason's ship the Argo) roughly 7500 light-years from Earth. It is on the northern outskirts of the chaotic environment of the Carina Nebula, which has been sculpted by many other pockets of star formation ( a href="http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0905/">eso0905 /a>).
A rich deposit of gas and dust in the NGC 3 
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has captured the best and most complete glimpse yet of what lies beyond the solar system. The new measurements give clues about how and where our solar system formed, the forces that physically shape our solar system, and the history of other stars in the Milky Way.
The Earth-orbiting spacecraft observed four separate types of atoms including hy 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss bilateral cooperation in high-tech industries, including space and nuclear power, during his one-day working visit to Australia on Tuesday.
The visit marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries. "Moscow regards Australia as an important and prospective partner in the fast-developing Asia-Pa 
Improving fire-fighting techniques in space and getting a better understanding of fuel combustion here on Earth are the focus of a series of experiments on the International Space Station, led by a professor at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. to A first round of experiments ran from March 2009 to December 2011. A second round kicked off in January and