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Danish Aerospace Company ApS to build 'next generation,' multi-function exercise equipment for astronauts
Sep 17, 2018 (SPX)
ESA and NASA plan to test this equipment on the International Space Station for possible future use on the International Lunar Orbital Platform or 'Gateway' tha...
ISRO Not To Fly Living Being Before Actual Manned Space Mission: Official
Sep 17, 2018 (IANS)
"We have no plans to test fly any living being like live animals in our two test flights before sending human beings into the space in our rocket," K. Sivan, Ch...
Fly me to the Moon? A look at the space-tourism race
Sep 14, 2018 (AFP)
- Moon orbit: SpaceX - The California-based company headed by tycoon Elon Musk announced plans Thursday to send a passenger into lunar orbit aboard a monster ro...
How NASA Goddard tests tools astronauts will use to explore distant worlds
Sep 14, 2018 (SPX)
To protect precious hours available for extraterrestrial scientific investigations, a team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland - the Go...
Russian space industry source says no new leaks found at ISS
Sep 14, 2018 (Sputnik)
"There are no new signs of a drilling impact neither at the ISS, not at Soyuz spacecrafts docked to it," the source said. In late August, Roscosmos state space ...
NASA completes Orion parachute tests for missions with astronauts
Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)
Over the course of eight tests at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, engineers have evaluated the performance of Orion's parachute system during no...
Exploring the Solar System? you may need to pack an umbrella
Sep 12, 2018 (SPX)
This game-changing technology could squeeze a heat shield into a rocket with a diameter larger than the rocket itself. The design may someday deliver much large...
Russia denies suspecting US astronauts of drilling hole on space station
Sep 12, 2018 (AFP)
The hole was detected on the ISS last month and quickly sealed up, but Russia has suggested that it was drilled deliberately. Russian daily Kommersant reported ...
Situation around hole on Soyuz more difficult than expected
Sep 12, 2018 (Sputnik)
Dmitry Rogozin, the chief of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, confirmed that a commission of Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation had failed to dete...
5 Hazards of Human Spaceflight
Sep 12, 2018 (SPX)
Pooling the challenges into categories allows for an organized effort to overcome the obstacles that lay before such a mission. However, these hazards do not st...
Champagne in space: Zero-G bottle lets tourists drink bubbly
Sep 12, 2018 (AFP)
The Mumm champagne house teamed up with designer Octave de Gaulle, who has specialised in conceiving of everyday objects for the final frontier, to develop the ...
Not A Job, But An Adventure - Space Traffic Controller
Sep 11, 2018 (SPX)
It is likely that these positions will be located in an international metropolis such as Washington, Paris, London, Hong Kong, Rome or Moscow. Applicants must p...
Russian cosmonaut speaks about situation on ISS after leak in Soyuz
Sep 11, 2018 (Sputnik)
"Please, do not worry, everything is fine here. We are now in the living section of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft where the drop in air pressure has been detected....
Russian Cosmonauts Asked to Look For Proof to Unravel Soyuz Hole Origin
Sep 10, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The cosmonauts have been asked to bring back to Earth all possible proof that could help determine why the hole appeared. While photo and video, as well as mea...
Cosmonaut shows space station hole to calm public
Sep 10, 2018 (AFP)
Cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev posted a video on social media where he shows the small sealed hole in the wall of a Russian-made Soyuz space capsule docked onto the...
Bahrain in Talks With Russia to Send Astronauts Into Space
Sep 06, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The representatives of the Bahrain Space Science Agency attended a spacecraft launch at Baikonur this year, where they discussed with the Russian side the pros...
Air Leak Hole in Soyuz Spacecraft Likely Made During Construction - Sources
Sep 06, 2018 (Sputnik)
Last week, Roscosmos Space Corporation head Dmitry Rogozin said an air leak and subsequent drop in pressure occurred at the Soyuz spacecraft docked to the Inter...
Airbus-built ACLS Life Support Rack is ready for launch from Tanegashima
Sep 06, 2018 (ESA)
The Life Support Rack is stored in the pressurized part of the Japanese HTV-7, an unmanned cargo spacecraft to resupply the ISS, which is currently set to launc...
Russia says space station leak may be sabotage
Sep 04, 2018 (AFP)
Space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin said the hole detected Thursday in a Russian space craft docked at the orbiting station was caused by a drill and could have b...
Russia says space station leak could be deliberate sabotage
Sep 04, 2018 (AFP)
Space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin said the hole detected Thursday in a Russian space craft docked at the orbiting station was caused by a drill and could have b...
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