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Top Five Technologies Needed for a Spacecraft to Survive Deep Space

Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)

Artemis Missions near the Moon will start when NASA's Orion spacecraft leaves Earth atop the world's most powerful rocket, NASA's Space Launch System. After lau...

First Arab set for ISS says voyage will make 'history'

Sep 24, 2019 (AFP)

Hazzaa al-Mansoori, 35, is set to blast into space accompanied by Russia's Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir onboard a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur ...

Japanese, Russian rockets prepare to launch cargo and crew this week

Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)

The HTV-8 space freighter from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) is packed with over four tons of crew supplies, station hardware and new science experi...

Per Aspera Ad Astra

Sep 21, 2019 (SPX)

And so, any film that would attempt a title as such has to live up to my expectations and Ad Astra the movie does. Actor Brad Pitt and the cast masterfully demo...

Putin briefed on results of probe into hole in Soyuz MS-09

Sep 20, 2019 (Sputnik)

"The president has been briefed on the results of the investigation," the source said. Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the state space agency Roscosmos, said Wednes...

Roscosmos finds causes of hole in Soyuz MS-09, but won't disclose them

Sep 19, 2019 (Sputnik)

"It was in the household compartment [of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft], it already burned down long ago when the ship was descending. We took all the samples. Wha...

France pledges billions in fight to halt start-up drain

Sep 18, 2019 (AFP)

French President Emmanuel Macron has made the continent's latest move to muster help for homegrown start-ups, promising five billion euros ($5.5 billion) of tec...

Russia to give cosmonauts guns to fend off animals on landing

Sep 18, 2019 (AFP)

Cosmonauts have been unarmed for more than a decade but Roscosmos agency head Dmitry Rogozin said it was time to bring back weapons as manned launches move to t...

Orion Test Article on the Move

Sep 18, 2019 (SPX)

The service module is an essential part of the spacecraft. It will propel, power and cool Orion in addition to providing air and water for the crew. In this tim...

ARISS-US announces substantial gift toward the cost of the InterOperable Radio System

Sep 17, 2019 (SPX)

ARDC wrote, "These projects help to engage students with amateur radio (and STEM in general) by providing exciting capabilities that don't exist in the mobile p...

Space Station science: learning from Luca

Sep 17, 2019 (ESA)

Get a glimpse into the experiments ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano has been working on over the past two weeks in this fortnightly spotlight on Space Station scien...

Russia mulls equipping cutting-edge cosmonaut emergency survival kit with firearm

Sep 17, 2019 (Sputnik)

"The survival kit for the next-generation Orel cargo spacecraft will be built in the later stages of its [spacecraft's] development", the spokesperson said, add...

Brad Pitt talks weightlessness and calluses on phone call to ISS

Sep 16, 2019 (AFP)

"The calluses on my feet have basically gone away because I don't walk on the bottoms of my feet," said Hague, who is currently living on the ISS with two other...

Innovative model created for NASA to predict vitamin levels in spaceflight food

Sep 13, 2019 (SPX)

The new research, published in the journal Food Chemistry, gives NASA a time-saving shortcut to predict the degradation of vitamins in spaceflight food over tim...

Testing and Training on the Boeing Starliner

Sep 12, 2019 (SPX)

Fincke, along with NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson, will launch to the Space Station aboard the Starliner during its first crewed...

Natalie Portman joins Hollywood space race with 'Lucy in the Sky'

Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)

"Lucy in the Sky" opens with Portman drifting through space in her astronaut suit, begging her bosses for a few more moments to gaze at the cosmos before return...

A new journey into Earth for space exploration

Sep 12, 2019 (ESA)

The CAVES training course takes astronauts to the depths of Earth to improve their communication, problem-solving and teamwork skills. After a week of preparati...

Israeli high-tech looks to future -- whoever wins vote

Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)

"Fall in love with the problem not the solution," Uri Levine's shirt says in the exhibit at Tel Aviv's Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, which serves in pa...

JAXA spacecraft carries science, technology to the Space Station

Sep 10, 2019 (SPX)

Here are details about some of the scientific investigations and facilities heading to the orbiting lab on HTV-8. Preparing for dusty landings The new Hourglass...

Taking the next giant leaps

Sep 09, 2019 (SPX)

"I am hard-pressed to think of another event that brought the world together in such a collective way as the Apollo moon landing," says Daniel Hastings, the Cec...