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Desert Tests Pave Way for Human Exploration of Small Bodies
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics has successfully ...
British astronaut 'Major Tim' to fly to ISS
May 20, 2013 (AFP)
A former army helicopter pilot was on Monday named as the first "home-grown" British astronaut to head to the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake, 41, ...
Britain's Longitude Prize back after 300-year absence
May 20, 2013 (UPI)
After a 300-year absence, the Longitude Prize is back. The contest, which will reward a winning scientific idea with $10 million, is being organized by the char...
Danish Space Venture ready for lift off
May 15, 2013 (SPX)
Aquaporin A/S and Danish Aerospace Company ApS have created a new promising Joint Venture company in the space sector under the name Aquaporin Space Alliance (A...
Chris Hadfield's 'Space Oddity' video to be taken off YouTube
May 13, 2013 (UPI)
Per his agreement with the copyright holders of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will take down the video of himself doing a rend...
Researchers use graphene quantum dots to detect humidity and pressure
May 10, 2013 (SPX)
The latest research from a Kansas State University chemical engineer may help improve humidity and pressure sensors, particularly those used in outer space. Vik...
NASA Astronauts go underwater to test tools for a mission to an asteroid
May 09, 2013 (UPI)
Most people sport plain, boring old bathing suits when they go swimming. Not NASA astronauts Stan Love and Steve Bowen; they don brand new orange space suits wh...
Russia has no rivals in space tourism
May 07, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
More and more private companies are now making suggestions to tourists to become cosmonauts and visit the Earth's orbit. Specialists say though that full-scale ...
Glow-in-the-Dark Plants on the ISS
May 07, 2013 (SPX)
The world is changing. As greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, global temperatures are on the rise. Sea levels inch upward as polar ice retreats. Crop...
Russia Confirms Plans to Send Sarah Brightman to Space
May 07, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Monday it has reached an agreement with US-based Space Adventures Ltd. company to proceed with the plans to put British ...
Success Continues as NASA's Orion Parachute Tests Get More Difficult
May 07, 2013 (SPX)
A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft landed safely during a simulation of two types of parachute failures Wednesday, May 1. In the test, conducted in Yuma,...
UK Space Agency and NASA Join Forces to Explore the Solar System
May 06, 2013 (SPX)
The Sun and our neighboring planet Mars are two destinations that the UK and US will be exploring together in the coming years, following recent agreements for ...
Lockheed Martin Receives NASA Mission Operations Contract Extension
May 03, 2013 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $166.8 million contract option from NASA for facilities development and operations at Johnson Space Center that support human...
Outside View: Patents laws and suffering innovators
May 02, 2013 (UPI)
On March 16, new First-Inventor-To-File provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act took effect. The provision has been and will continue to be furiously ...
NASA's Chief Defends Commercial Spaceflight Agreements
Apr 30, 2013 (VOA)
NASA chief Charles Bolden found himself defending the U.S. space agency's practice of investing in commercial companies to ferry cargo - and one day crew - to t...
NASA Invites the Public to Fly Along with Voyager
Apr 29, 2013 (JPL)
A gauge on the Voyager home page tracks levels of two of the three key signs scientists believe will appear when the spacecraft leave our solar neighborhood and...
Google's Brin keeps spotlight on future technologies
Apr 25, 2013 (AFP)
Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Thursday outlined a vision for the future in which self-driving cars whisk care-free friends to verdant parks that were once pa...
Mysterious water on Jupiter came from comet smash
Apr 23, 2013 (AFP)
Enigmatic traces of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter came from a comet that crashed into the giant planet in 1994, the European Space Agency (ESA) said ...
What makes a good astronaut?
Apr 22, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
A pilot, a doctor, a programmer... who has more chances to become an astronaut? Who chooses this 'unearthly' profession and remains faithful to it all his life?...
NASA urged to preserve funding for planetary science missions
Apr 19, 2013 (UPI)
Members of Congress say they've urged NASA to spare planetary science funding and resist pressures to make disproportionate cuts to the science budget. In a let...
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