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Space Manufacturing 14: Critical Technologies for Space Settlement will be held at NASA Ames Conference Center in Mountain View, CA, October 30 and 31, 2010. Attendance will be limited to 200 participants. (Non-US Citizens, please allow 30 days for approvals

Space Experience Curaçao (SXC) and XCOR Aerospace, Inc. jointly announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the wet lease of a production version of the Lynx suborbital spacecraft, pending United States government approvals to station the

Swallowing its pride, NASA says it wants to learn from future commercial missions to the moon – and it is willing to pay up to $30 million for the privilege. The space agency wants to take advantage of the flurry

ANOTHER LUNAR DAWN, and the powdery dust on the moon’s surface begins to stir. Without a breath of wind, the finest motes swirl across the ancient landscape as electrostatically charged dust grains repel one another. Larger grains join the dance

Ever wonder what it takes to launch a shuttle? I found this on the Air & Space Magazine web site: Go For Launch! In this unique time-lapse video created from thousands of individual frames, photographers Scott Andrews, Stan Jirman and

NASA Radar returns first high-resolution view of an unusual crater near Moon’s north pole. Mini-RF, a synthetic aperture radar on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, recently imaged a potentially ice-rich crater near the north pole of the Moon. Located at

NASA and Steam have released Moonbase Alpha, a “first-person explorer” game where players join an exploration team in a futuristic 3D settlement on the south pole of the Moon. “In Moonbase Alpha, you assume the exciting role of an astronaut

The unfurling of a Japanese solar sail, the first demonstration of a new space propulsion technology, went exactly according to plan. According to JAXA’s blog posts and photos from the event, the IKAROS spacecraft’s sail appears to be in place.

Latest News from the Google Lunar X PRIZE Week of June 1 – 7, 2010 http://www.googlelunarxprize.org Welcome to the Google Lunar X PRIZE Newsletter. This is a weekly brief about the competition that will be sent every Wednesday.          HEADLINES OF THE WEEK

The Japanese space agency (JAXA) is embarking on a mammoth $2.2 billion project to put humanoid robots on the Moon and create an unmanned robot lunar base by 2020, according to the Japanese Prime Ministers office, noted by CnetNews and