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Aerospace explores next steps in space development
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
Cislunar Development: What to Build- and Why discusses the possible applications for cislunar space-for example, outposts on the moon, extraterrestrial mining o...
China's 'makers' battle mistrust in hi-tech community
Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)
The group works in a special space inside a high-rise in a city considered a nerve centre for the "maker movement" of tech whizzes who invent, design and make t...
China strengthens international space cooperation
Apr 23, 2018 (XNA)
So far, China has signed 121 cooperation agreements with 37 countries and four international organizations, Li said at a press conference about the Space Day of...
New research seeks to optimize space travel efficiency
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
Ho said it's about finding a balance between time and the amount of fuel - getting there fast requires more fuel. If time isn't an issue, slow but efficient low...
NASA Takes First 3-D Microscopic Image on the Space Station
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
On April 12, researchers first viewed the particles, called colloids, in 3-D, during the ongoing Advanced Colloids Experiments (ACE). Colloids are suspensions o...
India, France Join Hands for Ambitious Inter-Planetary Missions
Apr 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
The collaboration will be part of the joint vision for space cooperation that India and France agreed upon during the signing of a memorandum of understanding l...
US Senate narrowly confirms Trump's new NASA chief
Apr 19, 2018 (AFP)
Jim Bridenstine, a congressman from Oklahoma, US Navy veteran and former pilot, was confirmed on a 50-49 vote, and will become the 13th administrator of the Nat...
European Space Agency Hopes Skripal Case Won't Affect Work With Russia
Apr 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
"In our case, our relation with Russia is not at all effected so far," Woerner said. "We are doing space activities and therefore, we try to keep out of all the...
4,000 UAE Citizens Applied to Become Country's First Astronauts - Space Centre
Apr 18, 2018 (Sputnik)
"Around 4,022 applications have been received for the UAE Astronaut Programme from Emiratis in 38 different fields, aged between 17 - 67 years; of which 34% are...
NASA's New Space 'Botanist' Arrives at Launch Site
Apr 18, 2018 (JPL)
NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) left NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on April 6...
Philippines to deploy riot police for Boracay tourist closure
Apr 17, 2018 (AFP)
President Rodrigo Duterte has branded the tiny central island and its world-famous white-sand beach a "cesspool". He has ordered visitors be kept away from Apri...
Cosmonautics demonstrates how US, Russia should work together
Apr 17, 2018 (Sputnik)
"What is happening at the political level and what is being done in space are different things. We continue to work as we always have. It will be a good motive ...
First Steps to Space: Yuri Gagarin's Military Service Archive Declassified
Apr 13, 2018 (Sputnik)
The archival release includes over a dozen pages of never-before-seen material, starting with an official accounting of Gagarin's military postings and his prom...
Top tomatoes thanks to Mars missions
Apr 13, 2018 (ESA)
Inspired by an Obama speech in 2010 on human missions to Mars, Dutch company Groen Agro Control started investigating the best way to grow and fertilise plants ...
Cosmonaut Avdeyev: We Must Survive in Any Situation
Apr 13, 2018 (Sputnik)
Hero of Russia Cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev, the 74th man in space, has logged a total of 747 days in orbit. This is a record that no other person has achieved in s...
'Big ideas' conference steps up funding for 'audacious' projects
Apr 12, 2018 (AFP)
The organizers of the conference known for deep thinking discussions announced Wednesday it has raised $400 million for projects with "the potential to create m...
Growing Plants in Antarctica 'Open Way' for Distant Space Missions - Analyst
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
Sputnik discussed the significance of the scientists' success with Norman G. Lewis, regents' professor at the Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington Stat...
Giving Roots and Shoots Their Space: The Advanced Plant Habitat
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
This space in turn will allow a wider variety of crops to grow aboard the station. Thus far, the habitat has been used to grow and study Arabidopsis, small flow...
Take it from me: I'm not signing up to become a space tourist just yet
Apr 11, 2018 (The Conversation)
Is there anyone reading this who didn't want to be an astronaut when they were a child? I was especially passionate, but it was back in the days when Australian...
'Ideas' conference to grapple with dark side of tech
Apr 09, 2018 (AFP)
This year's theme of the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference starting Tuesday in Vancouver is "Age of Amazement," but with a keen eye o...
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