SPACE TRAVEL - INDO DAILY

Jul 02, 2019 (SPX)

While this is the first time the American side of the ISS has been promoted as a high-flying hotel, there have been five tourists who have visited the Russian s...

Left in the Dust: Poll Reveals Americans Don't Believe US Leads in Space Exploration

Jul 01, 2019 (Sputnik)

The joint poll, conducted by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, asked 1,137 adults a series of questions regarding space. The...

Aerojet Rocketdyne Delivers Orion Auxiliary Engines for Artemis 2

Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)

Orion will be capable of taking crews to deep space destinations and returning them safely to Earth. Launched on NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift...

Planetary Society's LightSail 2 Launched by Falcon Heavy

Jun 27, 2019 (SPX)

Launch was originally scheduled to occur at 23:30 EDT on 24 June (03:30 UTC on 25 June). SpaceX delayed the liftoff time by 3 hours to complete additional groun...

First-Ever Space Oven and Microgravity Baking Experiment

Jun 27, 2019 (SPX)

Later this year, DoubleTree by Hilton will make aerospace history when a batch of DoubleTree Cookie dough is launched along with the prototype oven in a rocket ...

Russian, North American astronauts return to earth

Jun 25, 2019 (AFP)

NASA astronaut Anne McClain, veteran cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, and Canadian Space Agency record-holder David Saint-Jacques emerged from the space c...

Soyuz capsule safely returns three space station crew members to Earth

Jun 25, 2019 (UPI)

NASA astronaut Anne McClain, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed in Kazakhstan at 1...

Hacker used $35 computer to steal restricted NASA data

Jun 24, 2019 (AFP)

The April 2018 attack went undetected for nearly a year, according to an audit report issued on June 18, and an investigation is still underway to find the culp...

Spaceship Concordia

Jun 21, 2019 (ESA)

The 2018 crew of Concordia research station in Antarctica recently returned to the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne to wrap up their time as researchers and...

Delays in NASA commercial spacecraft certification jeopardizes ISS crew access

Jun 21, 2019 (Sputnik)

"NASA's ability to process certification data packages for its two contractors continues to create uncertainty about the timing of certification", the report st...

NASA Invests $45M in US Small Businesses for Space Tech Development

Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)

These selections have an estimated value of more than $45 million and are part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology...

Watchdog criticizes rising costs, delays of NASA's next Moon rocket

Jun 19, 2019 (AFP)

The delays threaten the timetable set by President Donald Trump's administration to place astronauts on lunar soil five years from now, testing the next generat...

Science suffers collateral damage as US, China tensions rise

Jun 18, 2019 (AFP)

American and Chinese scientists have co-authored thousands of papers each year, far outpacing the output from scientific collaborations between any other two na...

With lions, elephants, Airbnb goes all-in on adventure tours

Jun 14, 2019 (AFP)

The new "Airbnb Adventures" unveiled Thursday will aim for unique experiences for users of its smartphone app travel service. Some of those being offered allow ...

NASA renames street for 'hidden' black women mathematicians

Jun 13, 2019 (AFP)

Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson provided pivotal contributions to space flight research from the 1940s through to the 1960s, when the United...

India hopes to launch'very small' space station after 2022

Jun 13, 2019 (AFP)

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan said Thursday that the ambitious project would follow a successful launch of a manned space flight sche...

Xplore and the Arch Mission Foundation partner to fly Arch Libraries to space

Jun 12, 2019 (SPX)

"Our civilization's knowledge is precious. Helping distribute Arch Libraries in space is an important way to secure this valuable data. The Xplore team is proud...

London leads Europe for tech investment: study

Jun 10, 2019 (AFP)

The city's buoyant tech sector saw more than double the level of investment of its closest European rival Berlin in 2018 and so far this year, research commissi...

NASA opens space station to private astronauts, tourists and more

Jun 08, 2019 (SPX)

This move comes as NASA focuses full speed ahead on its goal of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, where American companies also will pla...

NASA to open International Space Station to private astronauts

Jun 07, 2019 (UPI)

"We're hear because the International Space Station is now open for business," Stephanie Schierholz, NASA spokesperson, said during opening remarks at the Nasda...