SPACE.com – GOLDEN, Colo. – NASA's Constellation Program – including thedeployment of the Orion crew vehicle replacing the space shuttle – will firstbe assigned to International Space Station flights, then propel humans andcargo to the Moon. Expeditionary missions to Mars and beyond will follow.
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AP – A three-legged NASA spacecraft with a long arm for digging trenches is going to the Martian north pole to study if the environment is favorable for primitive life.
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AFP – Russia's Roskosmos space agency Sunday dismissed a suggestion in a NASA report that a US astronaut broke the alcohol ban before take-off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, the agency's spokesman said.
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AP – At NASA, once again, the problem is its culture — a habit of dismissing the concerns of knowledgeable underlings.
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AP – Russia’s space agency denied Saturday that an astronaut could have flown drunk aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from its Baikonur cosmodrome, reacting to allegations reported by the chairman of an independent U.S. panel on astronaut health.
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AFP – Revelations over boozing astronauts prompted Congress to call oversight hearings Friday, as a lawmaker warned drinking and driving was a bad idea … especially on a space shuttle.
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AFP – The US space agency faced a full-blown crisis Friday as US lawmakers promised to probe how NASA allowed astronauts to fly missions while drunk as well as the sabotage of in-flight computers.
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SPACE.com – A globaldust storm at Mars continues to veil the two surface rovers and their solarpanels, but NASA officials reported today they expect the robots are capable ofweathering the tempest.
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Reuters – Drunken NASA astronauts were allowed to fly on a Russian spacecraft and cleared to fly on the U.S. space shuttle, a panel convened by NASA said on Friday, citing "heavy use of alcohol by astronauts."
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AFP – Satellite broadcaster BSkyB reported a 9.4-percent drop in annual net profits on Friday as the group took a hit from its foray into the country's competitive broadband Internet market.
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