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Virgin Galactic Announces Todd Ericson As Space Pilot

Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)

Virgin Galactic, the privately-funded space company owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi's aabar Investments PJS, has announced that Todd '...

NASA Explores Additional Undersea Missions With NEEMO Projects 18 and 19

Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) is gearing up for two underwater projects, 18 and 19, during the months of July and September. Aquanauts p...

NASA Awards Construction Contract at Kennedy Space Center

Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)

NASA has awarded a two-year contract to Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Orlando to build a new multi-story headquarters building at the agency's Kennedy Space...

Sierra Nevada Completes Major Dream Chaser NASA CCiCap Milestone

Jul 25, 2014 (SPX)

Sierra Nevada has announced it has successfully passed Milestone 9, the Risk Reduction and Technology Readiness Level (TRL) Advancement Testing milestone, for s...

NASA Partners Punctuate Summer with Spacecraft Development Advances

Jul 25, 2014 (SPX)

Spacecraft and rocket development is on pace this summer for NASA's aerospace industry partners for the agency's Commercial Crew Program as they progress throug...

Voyager Spacecraft Might Not Have Reached Interstellar Space

Jul 24, 2014 (SPX)

In 2012, the Voyager mission team announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft had passed into interstellar space, traveling further from Earth than any other manmad...

New Fort Knox: A means to a solar-system-wide economy

Jul 24, 2014 (SPX)

Creating an economic zone of influence that encompasses our solar system will be the single most difficult endeavor the human race has ever attempted. The bigge...

NASA's Next Giant Leap

Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)

The first humans who will step foot on Mars are walking the Earth today. It was 45 years ago that Neil Armstrong took the small step onto the surface of the moo...

SSERVI: Serving NASA's Mission to the Moon and Beyond, Part 2

Jul 22, 2014 (NASA)

Humanity has plans to expand into space: to the Moon, to Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), and to the moons of Mars. Like any trip to anywhere, we need to know certa...

SSERVI: Serving NASA's Mission to the Moon and Beyond, Part 1

Jul 21, 2014 (SPX)

Humanity has plans to expand into space: to the Moon, to Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), and to the moons of Mars. Like any trip to anywhere, we need to know certa...

NASA Announces Early Career Faculty Space Tech Research Grants

Jul 21, 2014 (SPX)

NASA has selected seven university-led proposals for the study of innovative, early stage technologies that address high priority needs for America's space prog...

Scotland Dominates Locations List For UK Spaceport

Jul 16, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

Space tourism is on the mind of the British government, as it has announced plans to build at least eight spaceports on its soil. Scotland is so far the centerp...

UAE to create space agency, send unmanned probe to Mars

Jul 16, 2014 (AFP)

Oil-rich United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday it will create a space agency with the aim of sending the first Arab unmanned probe to Mars by 2021. "The UAE ...

Privately funded solar spacecraft to launch in 2016

Jul 10, 2014 (AFP)

A tiny spacecraft designed to sail by the power of the sun is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX rocket in 2016, a leading US space enthusiast said Wednesday. Th...

Taiwan's tourism revenue hits record high in 2013

Jul 10, 2014 (AFP)

Taiwan's tourism revenue hit an all-time high of $12.32 billion last year, boosted by a growing number of Chinese visitors, the government said Thursday, as rel...

Sun Sends More 'Tsunami Waves' to Voyager 1

Jul 09, 2014 (JPL)

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a new "tsunami wave" from the sun as it sails through interstellar space. Such waves are what led scientists to the ...

Space Launch System Core Stage Passes Critical Design Review

Jul 04, 2014 (SPX)

NASA continues to make progress toward its next giant leap to send humans farther into the solar system than ever before, including to an asteroid and eventuall...

Fruit fly immunity fails with fungus after (space)flight

Jul 04, 2014 (SPX)

Before you swat away the next fruit fly, consider instead just how similar its biological complexities are to our own. In a study published in PLOS ONE, researc...

From Deep Sea to Deep Space

Jul 03, 2014 (SPX)

How do you feed a six-person crew on a three-year mission to Mars? Food scientists are working on this and other challenges related to creating and optimizing f...

Russia, China Ready to Cooperate in Space, Explore Mars

Jul 01, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

Russia is ready to work with China to explore the Moon and Mars, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Monday. "If we talk about manned space flight...