Endeavour finally blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center Wednesday on its sixth attempt. Officials downplayed the debris that could be seen hitting the shuttle two minutes into the flight.
European aerospace and defence giant EADS has signed a long-awaited defence contract with Saudi Arabia to build a high-tech border security fence. The contract is estimated at over 2 billion euros.
The Paris Air Show may have provided temporary relief from the crisis, but it is still a far cry from the boom year of 2007. Fred George, Aviation Week specialist, gives his take on this year's Paris gathering and the state of the industry.
Interviewed at the Paris air show in Le Bourget, Shep Hill, president of Boeing International, says he’s confident in the face of the global economic crisis.
Astronauts are giving a behind-the-scenes look at the space shuttle Atlantis's high-risk mission to service the Hubble telescope, thanks to micro-blogging sensation Twitter. Follow their expedition on FRANCE24.com.
On Tuesday, six volunteers will ‘blast off’ into the simulated wilds of space as part of the Mars 500 experiment in Moscow. The 105-day trip will test man’s capacity to handle a real space flight to the Red Planet.
The European aerospace group EADS posted a 2008 net profit of 1.572 billion euros, after a loss of 446 million euros in 2007. The group climbs back into the black.
After several delays, Discovery's launch on a mission to the International Space Station has been set for Wednesday, NASA announced. The space shuttle will carry Japan's first astronaut to serve aboard the station and deliver solar wing panels.
The Chinese government is extending its space programme, with plans to launch an space module into orbit before the end of 2010 and to carry out China's first space docking in 2011. The country became the third nation to put a man in space in 2003.
With the nomination of a Frenchman and a German, the crew of six who will undergo the first experiment for a mission to Mars has been completed. Starting March 31, the crew will endure 105 days of isolation to test the possibility of such a trip.
