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Vice President Pence Hosts National Space Council at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Feb 22, 2018 (SPX)
But the primary focus for the vice president's trip was the second meeting of the National Space Council taking place Feb. 21 in the high bay of the center's Sp...
Ensuring fresh air for all
Feb 20, 2018 (ESA)
"We realised that the problem astronauts face with limited of exchange of air inside the International Space Station is also the case for many people inside bui...
Japanese, US astronauts end spacewalk to fix robotic arm
Feb 16, 2018 (AFP)
The spacewalk, broadcast live on NASA TV, was the first for Japanese Aerospace Agency (JAXA) astronaut Norishige Kanai, and the fourth for his US counterpart Ma...
Trump's Privatized ISS 'Not Impossible,' but Would Require 'Renegotiation'
Feb 16, 2018 (Sputnik)
According to the Washington Post report, Trump wants to turn the station into a "kind of orbiting real estate venture run not by the government, but by private ...
Russian Resupply Ship Delivers Three Tons of Cargo
Feb 16, 2018 (Sputnik)
"There is a docking! There is a mechanical capture," a commentator at the control center said hours after the Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying freighter took off from...
NASA's Continued Focus on Returning U.S. Human Spaceflight Launches
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
"The work Boeing and SpaceX are doing is incredible. They are manufacturing spaceflight hardware, performing really complicated testing and proving their system...
NASA Acting Administrator's Statement on FY 2019 Budget Proposal
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
"It is my privilege [today] to present President Trump's Fiscal Year 2019 budget request of $19.9 billion for NASA. It reflects the administration's confidence ...
All-in-one service for the Space Station
Feb 12, 2018 (ESA)
The Space Station has been growing in size during the past 20 years, and so have the number of platforms dedicated to science in orbit. However, researchers and...
Marshall tech cleans your air, keeps your beer cold and helps with math
Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)
"For over 50 years, the Technology Transfer Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has worked with center innovators to identify ...
US wants to privatize International Space Station: report
Feb 11, 2018 (AFP)
That is the wish of the White House, which hopes to end funding for the costly program within a few years, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The US plan, the...
ESA and Airbus sign partnership agreement for new ISS commercial payload platform Bartolomeo
Feb 09, 2018 (SPX)
The agreement defines the roles and responsibilities of the two PPP partners, with Airbus investing around euro 40 million into the development, construction an...
NanoRacks adds Thales Alenia Space to team up on Commercial Space Station Airlock Module
Feb 07, 2018 (SPX)
Thales Alenia Space will produce and test the critical pressure shell for NanoRacks' Airlock Module, which is targeting to be launched to the International Spac...
Cosmonauts position antennae wrong during record-long spacewalk
Feb 05, 2018 (UPI)
Expedition commander Alexander Misurkin and flight engineer Anton Shkaplerov spent 8 hours and 13 minutes outside the International Space Station, a record in R...
Celebrating 60 years of groundbreaking US space science
Feb 02, 2018 (SPX)
On Jan. 31 the moment had come. At 10:48 p.m. EST, Explorer 1 blasted off, hurtling into Earth's orbit in seven and a half minutes. The next day's front-page ne...
Holograms and mermaids: Top trends at Nuremberg toy fair
Feb 02, 2018 (AFP)
With traditional toy companies torn between joining kids in the digital world or coaxing them away from their screens, here's a look at some of the most eye-cat...
Soon humans will travel out beyond the Moon
Feb 02, 2018 (SPX)
Orion is America's exploration spaceship, and the EM-2 mission will be its first flight with astronauts on board, taking them farther into the solar system than...
Putting down roots in space
Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)
Understanding how spaceflight affects plants is critical for future efforts to cultivate plants during spaceflight. Optimizing plant growth, both on Earth and i...
Spinoff 2018 Highlights Space Technology Improving Life on Earth
Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)
"NASA's work represents an investment in the future, not just for air and space travel, but for the nation," said Stephen Jurczyk, associate administrator of th...
Russia to start offering spacewalks for tourists
Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)
"We are discussing the possibility of sending tourists on spacewalks," Vladimir Solntsev, the head of Russian space company Energia, told Russian tabloid Komsom...
Amazon opens plant-filled The Spheres buildings
Jan 30, 2018 (AFP)
The Spheres are the newest addition to Amazon's "urban campus" in Seattle, and are billed as a workplace "more like a tropical rainforest in the clouds than an ...
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