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SpaceX Dragon arrives at ISS with material samples and new testing facility
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
Also on board was the new MISSE flight facility hardware developed by Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance of Houston. The flight facility holds several new p...
No Space for Partnership: Analyst Predicts Dark Future for ISS Joint Project
Apr 05, 2018 (Sputnik)
The US plans to stop funding the International Space Station (ISS), announced recently, came as no surprise, according to space industry analyst and journalist ...
Virgin Galactic completes first rocket-powered Unity space craft launch
Apr 05, 2018 (UPI)
Richard Branson's space company shared a photo of the SpaceShipTwo model spacecraft as it blasted into the air above the Mojave Air and Space Port before going ...
Cargo-packed Dragon arrives at space station
Apr 04, 2018 (AFP)
"We have capture confirmed," a NASA commentator said as the space station's robotic arm latched onto the gum-drop shaped spacecraft at 6:40 am (1040 GMT), at a ...
Anticipating the dangers of space
Apr 04, 2018 (SPX)
Though not believed to be an imminent threat to current missions, astronauts may one day face radiation from solar winds and galactic cosmic rays. How much radi...
Aerospace Tech Startups Get a Chance to Pitch at JPL
Apr 03, 2018 (JPL)
The event, co-hosted by JPL and Starburst Accelerator, gave each presenter about 15 minutes to pitch their products and business plans in the hopes of bending t...
Parachute Testing Lands Partners Closer to Crewed Flight Tests
Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)
On March 4, SpaceX performed its 14th overall parachute test supporting Crew Dragon development. This exercise was the first of several planned parachute system...
Coming down in flames: Fiery endings for spacecraft
Mar 30, 2018 (AFP)
The re-entry of the nearly eight-tonne Tiangong-1 poses little threat, officials and experts say, and much larger objects have plunged back to Earth -- at the e...
Out of this world: Inside Japan's space colony centre
Mar 30, 2018 (AFP)
Tucked away in high-tech laboratories at the Tokyo University of Science, a team of 30 researchers directed by Chiaki Mukai are studying new ways to keep humans...
US astronauts make spacewalk to perform ISS repairs
Mar 29, 2018 (AFP)
The walk -- which lasted six hours and 10 minutes -- by flight engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold got off to a delayed start at 1333 GMT because leak check...
A bridge so far: China's controversial megaproject
Mar 29, 2018 (AFP)
Nine years after construction began on the 55-kilometre (34-mile) crossing, a preview organised by the Chinese government this week offered a first peek into th...
NASA accepting applications for mission control leaders
Mar 28, 2018 (SPX)
"Flight directors play a critical role in the success of our nation's human spaceflight missions," said Brian Kelly, director of Flight Operations at Johnson. "...
What the first American astronauts taught us about living in space
Mar 28, 2018 (SPX)
"Spaceflight data is hard to come by; we should remember what's already been done, so we can make the most of new opportunities to do human research in space," ...
Fifty years on, Yuri Gagarin's death still shrouded in mystery
Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)
On March 27, 1968, at 10:18 am, Gagarin was preparing for a training flight in his MiG-15 plane at the Chkalovsky aerodrome near Moscow, his former cosmonaut co...
Rooting for Answers: Simulating G-Force to Test Plant Gravity Perception in Mustard Seedlings
Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)
Botanists from Ohio Weslyan University leverage the microgravity environment of the International Space Station to study root growth behaviors and sensory syste...
Inspired by ASU NASA mission, students create space art
Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)
The NASA Art Program began by granting artists behind-the-scenes access to witness launches, suit-ups and meetings. Over the course of its decades-long history,...
60 years in orbit for 'grapefruit satellite' - the oldest human object in space
Mar 22, 2018 (SPX)
Other early satellites - such as Sputnik 1, the first satellite to leave Earth in 1957, and Explorer 1, the first US satellite - have long since re-entered the ...
Two Americans, one Russian blast off for ISS
Mar 21, 2018 (AFP)
NASA's Drew Feustel and Richard Arnold lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission in a Soyuz MS-08 under the command of Russ...
Tribal College and University Student Conference to host NASA competition
Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)
This four-day Tribal Colleges and Universities event at Bismarck Event Center, North Dakota, will offer students the opportunity to interact with NASA engineers...
China to become top patent filer within three years: UN
Mar 21, 2018 (AFP)
A record 243,500 international patent applications were filed last year, a hike of 4.5 percent from a year earlier, the World Intellectual Property Organisation...
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