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Sierra Nevada Corporation completes key step for NASA's NextSTEP-2 study

Aug 16, 2018 (SPX)

SNC plans to submit a bid to win the NASA contract when the agency issues its formal solicitation for the element later this year. "Our design provides pressuri...

India to send manned mission to space by 2022: Modi

Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)

"India will send into space -- a man or a woman -- by 2022, before that if possible," Modi said in a marathon address at the Red Fort in New Delhi for the count...

NASA Administrator Plans to Meet With Russian Space Agency Chief in Near Future

Aug 14, 2018 (Sputnik)

On Sunday, Roscosmos said that Rogozin would hold talks with Bridenstine at the Baikonur spaceport in October. "Not yet, but I intend to in the near future and ...

NASA announces new partnerships to develop space exploration technologies

Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)

Selections are based on the agency's third competitive Tipping Point solicitation, and have a combined total award value of approximately $44 million - a signif...

Samsung to invest billions in new tech to drive fresh growth

Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)

The investment will be primarily led by Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest maker of memory chips, which has faced a string of setbacks in recent years, in...

NASA makes progress toward planetary science decadal priorities

Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)

The report notes that the agency met or exceeded the decadal survey's recommendations for funding research and analysis, and for technology programs. However, N...

Recipe for a spacewalk

Aug 08, 2018 (ESA)

Known to the crew as an EVA (extravehicular activity), each spacewalk provides a valuable opportunity to carry out repairs, test new equipment and even perform ...

ISS end-of-life options

Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)

A good part of the station will burn up during reentry, but many large modules with survive to impact the ocean. Since the ISS orbits the Earth at an inclinatio...

NASA Assigns Crews to First Test Flights, Missions on Commercial Spacecraft

Aug 06, 2018 (SPX)

"Today, our country's dreams of greater achievements in space are within our grasp," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "This accomplished group of Americ...

Blend of novices, veterans to fly on first private US spaceships

Aug 04, 2018 (AFP)

These pioneering flights to the International Space Station aboard commercially built crew capsules will be the first leaving US soil to put people into orbit s...

Flight Tests to Prove Commercial Systems Fit for Human Spaceflight

Aug 03, 2018 (SPX)

NASA's goal in collaborating with Boeing and SpaceX is to achieve safe, reliable and cost-effective transportation to and from station on the companies' spacecr...

Engine flaw delays Boeing test of crew capsule to 2019

Aug 02, 2018 (AFP)

The problem involved failures with several abort engines that did not close as planned and allowed propellant to leak, company officials said in a conference ca...

NASA, Commercial Partners Progress to Human Spaceflight Home Stretch

Aug 01, 2018 (SPX)

Here's a look at the milestones so far in 2018: Crew and International Space Station In March, astronaut Eric Boe visited Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Ca...

Cygnus concludes 9th Cargo Supply Mission to Space Station

Aug 01, 2018 (SPX)

]The spacecraft removed more than 6,600 pounds (over 3,000 kilograms) of disposable cargo, a new record for Cygnus. The "S.S. J.R. Thompson" also successfully e...

Crewed Missions Beyond LEO

Jul 31, 2018 (SPX)

Over the past half-century technological advances have just about overtaken the fictional aspects of getting to Mars. Each year we get closer and closer to actu...

Space tourism economics - financing and regulating trips to the final frontier

Jul 30, 2018 (The Conversation)

The last of these travelled in 2009, after which the Russians halted the practice. But now commercial space travel, albeit at a lower orbit, is set to start aga...

Space Station experiment reaches ultracold milestone

Jul 30, 2018 (JPL)

NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) was installed in the station's U.S. science lab in late May and is now producing clouds of ultracold atoms known as Bose-Einst...

NASA to Name Astronauts Assigned to First Boeing, SpaceX Flights

Jul 27, 2018 (SPX)

NASA will announce the crew assignments for the crew flight tests and the first post-certification mission for both Boeing and SpaceX. NASA partnered with Boein...

NASA Marshall Awards 43 New Small Innovation and Technology Research Proposals

Jul 25, 2018 (SPX)

"The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs enable Marshall to work with industry and academic partners to tackle te...

Sky's no limit: Japan firm to fly wedding plaques into space

Jul 24, 2018 (AFP)

Warpspace, a start-up based in Tsukuba City outside Tokyo, is introducing the new service in partnership with a local hotel popular for wedding banquets. For ab...