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AP - NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires.

Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jul 08, 2008 - ProtoStar Ltd., a Bermuda corporation, announced the successful launch late today of its ProtoStar I communications satellite aboard an Ariane 5 rocket that lifted into space from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2008 - China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e -1 lunar probe has said.

Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jul 08, 2008 - The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's fourth mission of 2008 has moved to the ELA-3 launch zone at Europe's Spaceport, clearing the way for its July 7 liftoff with a dual payload of commercial telecommunications satellites.

Earth has liquid water and plate tectonics, but its most special feature might just be us.

Washington - The US space agency NASA issued a schedule Monday for the final 10 shuttle programme missions in 2009-10. The list includes one launch to the Hubble Space Telescope, seven missions to continue construction on the orbiting International S...

(The National Academies) Geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites provide information for both weather prediction and long-term climate records.

NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems Inc. in Houston, a one-year contract extension valued at $42 million to provide integration services for cargo delivery to and from the International Space Station.

NASA is developing new spacecraft, the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule, to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station and send them on their way to the moon.

NASA has set the target launch dates for the last shuttle missions.