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Plant hormone makes space farming a possibility

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

The idea has been bounced around for a while now - and not just by the likes of NASA, but also by private entrepreneurs such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk: that o...

Smell and stress sensors a smash at Tokyo tech fair

Oct 17, 2018 (AFP)

The big-screen TVs and entertainment systems that were all the rage 10 years ago at the CEATEC fair have gradually been replaced by tiny sensors that accurately...

Escape capsule with Soyuz MS-10 crew hit ground 5 times before stopping

Oct 17, 2018 (Sputnik)

"Sensors of the reentry capsule registered that it suffered five hits during the landing. That is, the spacecraft hit the ground, bounced several times and roll...

Russian cosmonaut reveals what ISS crew truly fears

Oct 16, 2018 (Sputnik)

Sergei Prokopyev, a Russian cosmonaut currently stationed aboard the International Space Station, has unveiled the true fear that plagues every member of the IS...

'Concrete block on your chest': astronauts recount failed space launch

Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)

Ovchinin and Hague were forced to make an emergency landing after an accident on their rocket minutes after blast-off to the International Space Station, with t...

The forgotten age of space

Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)

"I was inspired by living with Russians, seeing the pride they gave to their space program while their economy and government fell apart around them," Smith sai...

Kremlin says it's impossible to draw conclusions on Soyuz failure yet

Oct 15, 2018 (Sputnik)

"It is impossible to draw any conclusions now. He [Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov] said that the relevant authorities would now work to figure out w...

Russia probes ISS rocket failure

Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)

US astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin were forced to make an emergency landing after the incident on Thursday, but were rescued without...

SAS announces expanded Human Spaceflight Safety Services to support deep space and lunar missions

Oct 12, 2018 (SPX)

"Human spaceflight is on the verge of experiencing a renaissance thanks to the recent entry into the industry by multiple commercial organizations," said Tim Bu...

NASA says will use Russia's Soyuz despite rocket failure

Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)

"I fully anticipate that we will fly again on a Soyuz rocket and I have no reason to believe at this point that it will not be on schedule," he told reporters. ...

Aborted launch astronauts to go to space next spring: Russia

Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)

"The guys will fly for sure," Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Twitter, posting a picture of himself with smiling Ovchinin and Hague. "We are planning the...

Virgin Group suspends Saudi talks for billion dollar space investment

Oct 12, 2018 (Sputnik)

According to the media outlet, Branson has also suspended talks about two large-scale tourism projects planned by Riyadh along the Red Sea as a crisis builds ov...

No more taxi service to Space Station after Soyuz anomaly

Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)

Neither the United States nor Russia will be able to send astronauts to the ISS until investigators determine why a Soyuz rocket failed after blast-off Thursday...

Crew of Soyuz MS-10 lands in Kazakhstan after launch failure

Oct 11, 2018 (Sputnik)

Chief of Russian state space corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin has commented on the Soyuz MS-10 emergency landing, saying that the Soyuz crew had landed safe...

UN is only option in multilateral discussion of outer space

Oct 11, 2018 (Sputnik)

Sputnik has discussed the competition in space with Dr. Gbenga Oduntan, an associate professor of international commercial law at the University of Kent in Cant...

NASA photo shows International Space Station transiting the sun

Oct 11, 2018 (UPI)

Recently, photographer Joel Kowsky documented the space station's trip across the face of the sun. Kowsky combined the photographs into a composite image, featu...

Branson says Virgin Galactic to launch space flight 'within weeks'

Oct 09, 2018 (AFP)

Speaking to CNBC in Singapore, the billionaire Virgin founder said the company was "more than tantalisingly close" to launching its first mission to space, and ...

Japan space tourist says moon training 'shouldn't be too hard'

Oct 09, 2018 (AFP)

The 42-year-old Maezawa paid an undisclosed sum for a ticket on fellow tycoon Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023 and the passionate art ...

Russia to help India in its first manned space mission

Oct 08, 2018 (Sputnik)

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Federal Space Agency of Russia, Roscosmos, on the Joint Acti...

NASA Voyager 2 Could Be Nearing Interstellar Space

Oct 08, 2018 (SPX)

Since 2007 the probe has been traveling through the outermost layer of the heliosphere - the vast bubble around the Sun and the planets dominated by solar mater...