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NASA Selects Advanced Space Technology Concepts
May 14, 2015 (JPL)
NASA has selected 15 proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanc...
British soprano suspends plans to sing in space
May 13, 2015 (AFP)
British singer Sarah Brightman said Wednesday she was suspending plans to launch into space to perform on the International Space Station due to "family reasons...
Welding Begins on Orion Pathfinder
May 12, 2015 (SPX)
On May 7, engineers at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans began welding together the first pieces of the structure of the Orion crew module pathfin...
Aitech Provides Subsystem and Computing Boards for Commercial Crew
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
Aitech Defense Systems Inc. was recently awarded a contract by The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) to provide space-grade products and services to support the Commerc...
The language of invention: Most innovations are rephrasings of the past
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
Most new patents are combinations of existing ideas and pretty much always have been, even as the stream of fundamentally new core technologies has slowed, acco...
NASA Confirms Electromagnetic Drive Produces Thrust in Vacuum
May 05, 2015 (Sputnik)
An electromagnetic drive being developed by NASA to operate without rocket fuel, in a vacuum, is seemingly defying the laws of physics, and raising hopes for th...
Hawaii Says 'Aloha' to NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator
May 03, 2015 (SPX)
The second test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project arrived April 25 at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawai...
Blue Origin first vehicle test deemed success
May 02, 2015 (UPI)
Private space company Blue Origin successfully launched and landed a tourism vehicle, New Shepard, Wednesday from a remote area in western Texas, USAToday.com r...
NASA pushes back against proposal to slash climate budget
May 01, 2015 (AFP)
NASA pushed back Thursday against a congressional proposal to slash more than $300 million in funding from its branch focused on climate issues. The proposal wo...
General Dynamics Integrates NASA's SGSS Infrastructure
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
A General Dynamics-led team successfully completed on-schedule the implementation, integration and test of the NASA Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SG...
Unmanned Russian spacecraft plunging to Earth: official
Apr 29, 2015 (AFP)
An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control, an official s...
The Mysteries of Astronautics
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
Astronautics is the discipline of designing, building, and operating space vehicles. This field of endeavor addresses the design of space missions, spacecraft a...
India Role Model in Space Science Benefiting Common Man
Apr 27, 2015 (IANS)
Former ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan has said India is the "role model" in the world in harnessing space research and explorations for the benefit of the common...
Space law is no longer beyond this world
Apr 24, 2015 (SPX)
Space may be the "final frontier" but the legal ramifications of what happens in space are now very much a reality - and they've also become the subject of teac...
Ramping Up For Johnson's Chamber A Test
Apr 17, 2015 (SPX)
Looking out from inside the enormous mouth of NASA's giant thermal vacuum chamber, called Chamber A, located at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Path...
Space icon reflects on origins of space program
Apr 17, 2015 (SPX)
Legendary Johnson Space Center icon Glynn Lunney, a flight director during the Gemini and Apollo Programs and best known for his work with Apollo 13, talked abo...
A Lot Can Happen in 5 Years: the President's 2010 Exploration Goals
Apr 17, 2015 (SPX)
On April 15, 2010, President Barack Obama outlined his plan for America's space program. At NASA's Kennedy Space Center that day, the President said: "We will n...
Russia vows to put Russian cosmonauts on Moon no later than 2030
Apr 17, 2015 (XNA)
The Federal Space Agency Roscosmos of Russia said Tuesday it would keep implementing space exploration projects in spite of the current economic difficulties an...
NASA Offers Study Volunteers Big Bucks to Stay in Bed
Apr 16, 2015 (Sputnik)
If you like to lie around but you're still fit as a whistle, here's your chance to make some money. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is ...
May I go to space once more asks Brian Duffy
Apr 10, 2015 (SPX)
Space is always on the mind of a veteran NASA astronaut Brian Duffy. The key figure in an aerospace company Orbital ATK and a Space Shuttle commander is extreme...
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