Enter the Dragon: Astronauts Open 1st Private Capsule at space Station - msnbc.com
26 May 2012, 6:45 am
A new first was achieved today (May 26) when astronauts on the International space Station opened the door to their newest spacecraft visitor, the private capsule Dragon. Dragon, built by commercial company spaceX, arrived at the space station on Friday ...

Sex, a celebrity astrophysicist, and the Columbia disaster—great stories about space. - Slate
26 May 2012, 5:47 am
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space Matrix Helps Deliver World’s Third Greenest Building - PRLog (free press release)
26 May 2012, 2:05 am
space Matrix, the international architecture and interior design firm founded by Indian architect Shagufta Anurag, has completed work on new office facilities in Singapore for the Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas. PRLog (Press Release) - May 26 ...

spaceX's Dragon makes history with space station docking - Economic Times
26 May 2012, 1:23 am
``Everyone who is working to push forward the space frontier recognizes that such a mission is a massive challenge, and I join the world in lauding this important accomplishment,'' said Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company ...

State Senate passes bill: space for bikes in traffic - Abc Local Web
25 May 2012, 10:31 pm
SACRAMENTO (KABC) -- A big boost for bicycle riders in California: The state Senate passed a bill Friday requiring drivers give 3 feet of space between the vehicles and the bicycle. Cyclists are cheering the new measure. High school student Nathaniel ...

space Geeks Geek Out On A History-Filled Friday Afternoon - Maximum PC
25 May 2012, 10:24 pm
It's a slow day tech news-wise, but May 25th has turned out to be an early Christmas for space geeks. Any self-respecting science nerd is no doubt already aware that spaceX's Dragon spacecraft has successfully completed its mission and become the first ...

SoCal Students Send Experiments to space Aboard First Privately-Funded spacecraft - NBC Los Angeles
25 May 2012, 8:51 pm
The next big thing in science has twice the chance of coming from Southern California as students make history with their experiments travelling aboard the first privately-owned rocket from Hawthorne-based company space X. Max Holden, 15, and classmate ...

space Systems/Loral Provides High Capacity Broadband Satellite to Hughes - Yahoo Finance
25 May 2012, 2:45 pm
PALO ALTO, CA and GERMANTOWN, MD--(Marketwire -05/14/12)- space Systems/Loral (SS/L) (LORL), the world's leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that the EchoStar XVII satellite, designed and built for Hughes Network Systems ...

spaceX triumph opens door to commercial space travel - ClickOnDetroit.com
25 May 2012, 1:55 pm
spaceX made history Friday as the first private company to successfully reach an orbiting space station -- but its competitors aren't far behind. Blue Origin, the commercial space outfit founded by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, has been wind-tunnel ...

spaceX carried 'cremains' of 320 people into space - Orlando Sentinel
24 May 2012, 6:57 pm
The spaceX rocket that launched a spacecraft to the International space Station also carried the cremated remains of 320 people, including former Mercury astronaut L. Gordon "Gordy" Cooper and James Doohan, immortalized in TV's "Star Trek" by ...