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IAF ties up with ISRO for manned mission crew selection
May 31, 2019 (IANS)
"The agreement was signed by Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Space Operations) Air Vice Marshal R.G.K. Kapoor and Gaganyaan Project Director R. Hutton in the pres...
Russian cosmonauts remove a towel that spent 10 years on surface of ISS
May 31, 2019 (Sputnik)
It was earlier reported that Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Alexei Ovchinin had removed a towel from the surface of the International Space Station durin...
NASA Navigation Tech Shows Timing Really Is Everything
May 30, 2019 (SPX)
To calculate where a spacecraft is in the solar system, NASA must measure the time it takes for electromagnetic waves traveling at the speed of light to flow be...
Cosmonauts complete spacewalk at International Space Station
May 29, 2019 (UPI)
Expedition 59 commander Oleg Kononenko and fellow cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin stepped out of the space station at 11:42 a.m. and returned about 6 hours later to c...
Wandering Earth: rocket scientist explains how we could move our planet
May 27, 2019 (The Conversation)
The scenario may one day come true. In five billion years, the sun will run out of fuel and expand, most likely engulfing the Earth. A more immediate threat is ...
China's tech 'Long March' could be road to nowhere
May 24, 2019 (AFP)
China has no doubt made an amazing transformation, from a former basket case wracked by mass famine and political upheaval to a highly connected society marked ...
NASA Prepares for Future Moon Exploration with International Undersea Crew
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
NEEMO 23 will focus on both exploration spacewalks and objectives related to space missions such as the International Space Station and future deep space missio...
NASA Selects Studies for Future Space Communications and Services
May 21, 2019 (SPX)
The agency's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program is studying Space Relay Partnership and Services to establish public-private partnerships with U...
NASA Testing Method to Grow Bigger Plants in Space
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
The present method of growing plants in space uses seed bags, referred to as pillows, that astronauts push water into with a syringe. Using this method makes it...
Oscar Avalos Dreams in Titanium
May 17, 2019 (JPL)
Then a freshman at Manual Arts High School in South Los Angeles, Avalos had his heart set on becoming an auto mechanic and was immersed in auto shop class. Over...
House committee limits Space Development Agency funding, asks for detailed plans
May 16, 2019 (UPI)
In a draft of the Defense Department funding bill for fiscal year 2020, released on Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee appropriators would block fundin...
Space plants project could be astronaut game changer
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
"It's an automated plant growing system," said Preston Tran, a senior mechanical engineering student and team leader. "It's able to seed, transfer and monitor y...
The Axiom Space tests key space station acrylic sample on ISS in Alpha Space's MISSE facility
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
Axiom Space and Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance (Alpha Space), both based in Houston, released photos on Wednesday of a specially formulated acrylic samp...
NASA Awards $106 Million to US Small Businesses for Technology Development
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
"Small businesses play an important role in our science and exploration endeavors," said Jim Reuter, acting associate administrator of NASA's Space Technology M...
NISTex-II instrument successfully launched on May 4th
May 14, 2019 (SPX)
The USNO team is led by Principal Investigator Dr. Rachel Dudik and Co-Investigators Dr. Greg Hennessy and Dr. Bryan Dorland. NASA will deploy and operate the i...
Trump, NASA want another $1.6 billion to return America to the moon
May 14, 2019 (UPI)
If approved, the amendment would bring the space agency's total budget for fiscal year 2020 up to $22.6 billion. "Under my Administration, we are restoring @NAS...
Robotics used to restore full power for the Space Station
May 14, 2019 (SPX)
Using complex robotic work to perform critical maintenance allows astronauts to spend more time working on scientific experiments and helps develop better techn...
LightSail 2 set to launch next month
May 14, 2019 (SPX)
It's the culmination of a 10-year project with an origin story linked to the 3 scientist-engineers who founded The Planetary Society in 1980. "Forty years ago, ...
Luxembourg and US agree to deepen cooperation in space
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
In the last few years, the grand duchy of Luxembourg has moved to join the US at the forefront of what has been dubbed the new space race. The two countries sig...
High-tech supremacy at stake in US-China trade war
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
The United States has long been the world's high-tech champion, although China has made major strides and even taken the lead in some sectors. But President Don...
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