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Bread Me Up, Scotty: Crumb-Free Pastries Coming to the ISS
Jun 14, 2017 (Sputnik)
Space is a cold, dark, bread-free place. It has been ever since 1965, when American astronaut John Young snuck a corned beef sandwich aboard the Gemini 3 Low Ea...
NASA Prepares for Future Space Exploration with International Undersea Crew
Jun 14, 2017 (SPX)
NEEMO 22 will focus on both exploration spacewalks and objectives related to the International Space Station and deep space missions. As an analogue for future ...
To Be or Not to Be: At 20 ISS Goes Strong, But for How Long
Jun 12, 2017 (Sputnik)
That said, even top space energy representatives taking part in this year's international conference on space exploration (GLEX-2017) found it hard to say wheth...
Roscosmos Says Cooperation With NASA Unaffected by 'Political Outbursts'
Jun 07, 2017 (Sputnik)
Russia's Roscosmos space corporation and NASA continue successful and fruitful cooperation, political "outbursts" have little effect on space agencies, Executiv...
Will Space Exploration lead us to a Global Space Agency
Jun 07, 2017 (SPX)
Lei Fanpei, President of the Chinese Society of Astronautics (CSA) and Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), welcome...
Russia's New 'Federation' Spacecraft to be Launched from Baikonur in 2022
Jun 07, 2017 (Sputnik)
Earlier reports indicated that the Federation would be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia's Far East. "There is a decision that the first launch o...
Additional Astronaut on the Space Station Means Dozens of New Team Members on the Ground
Jun 07, 2017 (SPX)
The POIC, mission control for science on the station, is home to dozens of expert flight controllers who are on console around the clock, 365 days a year, helpi...
Pence hails new NASA astronauts as 'best of us'
Jun 07, 2017 (AFP)
The seven men and five women who will be part of the US space program as it presses on to Mars and other deep-space destinations in the coming decades include m...
John Glenn Cygnus departs ISS begins secondary mission
Jun 06, 2017 (SPX)
The "S.S. John Glenn" will now conduct three secondary payload missions including the Saffire-III fire experiment, deployment of four CubeSats and an experiment...
Russia on the Way to Adopt New Program on Development of Space Centers
Jun 05, 2017 (Sputnik)
Komarov said in May that the program had been submitted to the government, and it was expected to keep within the budget not exceeding 340 billion rubles (some ...
Astronauts return after marathon ISS mission
Jun 02, 2017 (AFP)
NASA TV showed recovery crews swiftly helping the pair out of the craft and whisking them away from the landing site as the sun began to set on a hot summer's e...
Astronauts set to return after marathon ISS mission
Jun 02, 2017 (AFP)
The world was a different place when Pesquet, Russia's Oleg Novitskiy and American Peggy Whitson arrived on the International Space Station (ISS) on November 20...
From 2D to 3D, Space Station Microscope Gets an Upgrade
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
The Light Microscopy Module (LMM) microscope aboard the International Space Station is an advanced microscope that gives researchers a look at what is happening...
Studying Flame Behavior in Microgravity with a Solid High-Five
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers from across the country have developed a series of experiments to expand our understanding of flames at a fundamental level. NASA's Advanced Combust...
MIT researchers engineer shape-shifting food
May 29, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers, from MIT's Tangible Media Group, have concocted something akin to edible origami, in the form of flat sheets of gelatin and starch that, when s...
NASA honors Kennedy's space vision on 100th birthday
May 29, 2017 (UPI)
The space agency has created a special JFK centennial website featuring images of Kennedy's biggest moments with NASA and astronauts. "This year marks the 100th...
First Year of BEAM Demo Offers Valuable Data on Expandable Habitats
May 29, 2017 (SPX)
NASA and Bigelow are primarily evaluating characteristics directly related to the module's ability to protect humans from the harsh space environment. Astronaut...
Conch shells may inspire better helmets, body armor
May 29, 2017 (SPX)
Now, researchers at MIT have explored the secrets behind these shells' extraordinary impact resilience. And they've shown that this superior strength could be r...
NASA Acting Administrator Statement on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
"Today, President Trump released his Fiscal Year 2018 budget request for the federal government. At $19.1 billion, we have a very positive budget that retains t...
DARPA Picks Design for Next-Generation Spaceplane
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
The program aims to achieve a capability well out of reach today-launches to low Earth orbit in days, as compared to the months or years of preparation currentl...
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