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NASA-JAXA Joint Statement on Space Exploration
Jan 30, 2018 (SPX)
Both agencies have established a strong and committed partnership throughout the many years of cooperation in all mission areas, including human exploration, Ea...
Space station spacewalk postponed until mid-February
Jan 29, 2018 (UPI)
Last week, astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle conducted the first of two planned spacewalks. During their six hours outside the International Space Stat...
Microbes may help astronauts transform human waste into food
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
"We envisioned and tested the concept of simultaneously treating astronauts' waste with microbes while producing a biomass that is edible either directly or ind...
Space, the final frontier -- for nightclubs
Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)
The nightclub, billed as the first of its kind in conditions resembling space, will take off February 7 in Frankfurt with 20 clubbers representing all continent...
Macron 'completely changed' France's image, says tech billionaire
Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)
"He has given France a pro-startup, pro-entrepreneur image abroad that we did not really have before," said Niel, who bankrolled a giant startup incubator on th...
Explorer 1: The Beginning of American Space Science
Jan 24, 2018 (JPL)
The date was Jan. 31, 1958. NASA had yet to be formed, and the honor of this first flight belonged to the U.S. Army. The rocket's sole payload was a javelin-sha...
Orion Spacecraft Recovery Rehearsal Underway
Jan 23, 2018 (SPX)
When astronauts come back from deep space, they will need to be picked up as quickly as possible. That's where Kennedy Space Center's NASA Recovery Team comes i...
Two US spacewalkers replace latching end of robotic arm
Jan 23, 2018 (AFP)
During what NASA commentator Rob Navias described as a "textbook" spacewalk, NASA flight engineers Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle replaced a faulty latching en...
Looking up a century ago, a vision of the future of space exploration
Jan 23, 2018 (The Conversation)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) suggested that, by 2017, war and conflict would be eliminated by a world government. He also proposed this as the year humani...
Italy's First Female Astronaut: 'No Room for Conflicts in Space'
Jan 23, 2018 (Sputnik)
Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian European Space Agency astronaut, who is also an Italian Air Force pilot and engineer, believes that humans are not going to Mars...
S. Korea's Chinese tourist slump endures despite pledges
Jan 22, 2018 (AFP)
Seoul and Washington installed the powerful THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) system in the South last year to guard against threats from nuclear-arme...
Chinese, Russians shore up Middle East tourism
Jan 21, 2018 (AFP)
The Mideast region as a whole drew 58 million foreign tourists in 2017 -- a 4.8 percent rise on the previous year -- the Madrid-based WTO said in its latest fig...
Europe brings on charm and blue skies to lure Chinese tourists
Jan 20, 2018 (AFP)
A total 12.4 million Chinese, mostly in guided tour groups, came to Europe in 2017, according to the European Travel Comission. And the Chinese Tourism Academy ...
Elementary, my dear machine intelligence
Jan 19, 2018 (ESA)
It can detect suspicious patterns, reconstruct scenes and highlight promising avenues of investigation. The origins of this machine-intelligence date back almos...
Columbus: 10 years a lab
Jan 18, 2018 (ESA)
Next month, Europe's Columbus laboratory achieves 10 years in orbit. Circling our planet at 28 800 km/h, this element of the International Space Station created...
ASU engineer showcases NASA research for Congress
Jan 18, 2018 (SPX)
Zhao, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, was one of only three fa...
NanoRacks Begins Third International Space Station External Platform Mission In Extreme Space Environment
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
The platform has been mounted on the outside of the Space Station, completing its second mission, since early May 2017. Last week, the astronaut crew brought th...
Gadgets for kids still big at tech show despite concerns
Jan 12, 2018 (AFP)
The timing may have been unfortunate following revived concerns of the dangers of too much technology for young children. But as the debate swirled, exhibitors ...
Top takeaways from Consumers Electronics Show
Jan 12, 2018 (AFP)
Here are highlights from the show: Artificial intelligence battle The duel between Amazon and Google for supremacy in artificial intelligence played out at the ...
Life-saving NASA Communications System Turns 20
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
In the 1990s, the National Science Foundation (NSF) faced a communications challenge with more than a hundred scientists working at their Amundsen-Scott South P...
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