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NASA awards Unit Price Agreement Tracking System
Mar 01, 2023 (SPX)
Under this agreement, the government will issue fixed price BPA calls for service and, estimates, but does not guarantee, that the total value of the BPA calls ...
Global patent filings edge higher in 2022: UN
Feb 28, 2023 (AFP)
A record 278,100 patents were filed last year, up 0.3 percent, the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization said in its annual overview. Asia's dominance c...
Commercial Space: NASA Has an App for That
Feb 28, 2023 (SPX)
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, developed cFS to meet the needs of diverse missions ranging from high-altitude balloons to lunar-orbi...
Crew-6 ready for launch and a program of scientific studies on ISS
Feb 27, 2023 (SPX)
Here are details on some of the investigations the crew is scheduled to work on during their mission: Answering Burning Questions The Crew-6 mission continues c...
SpaceX crew launch to ISS postponed
Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)
The SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission was scheduled to depart the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:45 am (0645 GMT), carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosm...
SpaceX Dragon crew to blast off for ISS
Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)
The SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission is set to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:45 am (0645 GMT). Weather conditions are expected to be near p...
Starliner crew performs cabin operations, checks out tools
Feb 27, 2023 (SPX)
For Starliner's first flight with crew, that included various familiarization operations inside the spacecraft for NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sun...
Nicola Fox named associate administrator for NASA Science Mission Directorate
Feb 27, 2023 (UPI)
Fox will replace acting administrator Sandra Connelly atop the Science Mission Directorate effective immediately, according to a press release from NASA. NASA a...
Tennessee company gets multibillion-dollar NASA contract for Kennedy Space Center operations
Feb 27, 2023 (UPI)
The Consolidated Operations, Management, Engineering and Test contract from NASA secures engineering, launch, landing and recovery services and more for the age...
Russian ship docks with ISS to replace damaged capsule
Feb 26, 2023 (AFP)
The MS-23 ship autonomously latched to the orbiting research lab, live video from ISS-partner NASA showed, completing the Soyuz's two-day journey after launchin...
Russia's uncrewed Soyuz rescue spacecraft docks with ISS
Feb 25, 2023 (UPI)
"Contact and capture. Docking confirmed at 6:58 p.m. CST," NASA spokesman Robert Navias said during a broadcast of the mission. "It could not have gone smoother...
Russia launches empty ship to ISS to replace damaged capsule
Feb 24, 2023 (AFP)
The Soyuz MS-23 vessel lifted off successfully from the Russian-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome, live video broadcast by ISS-partner NASA showed. Though the capsul...
Farming on the Moon
Feb 23, 2023 (SPX)
The good news is that analysis of lunar samples returned to Earth in the past by Moonwalkers and robots shows sufficient essential minerals are available for pl...
Russia claims Progress leak caused by an external impact
Feb 22, 2023 (SPX)
High-resolution pictures of the Progress MS-21 spacecraft were taken by cosmonauts using the ISS' 17-meter-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, which revealed a 12-milli...
SpaceX Dragon crewed flight to ISS pushed back 24 hours
Feb 22, 2023 (AFP)
NASA's Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Russia's Andrey Fedyaev and Sultan al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates had been scheduled to blast off for the ISS at ...
Crew stuck on ISS to return to Earth in September: Russia
Feb 21, 2023 (AFP)
Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Sergei Prokopyev and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio flew to the ISS in September 2022 aboard a Soyuz MS-22 capsule. They were ...
Russian rescue mission for three space station astronauts set this week
Feb 21, 2023 (UPI)
Russia originally had planned to send an unmanned Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to the space station Feb. 14 to substitute for the docked Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, which...
From Hair to Eternity: locks of US presidents heading to space
Feb 20, 2023 (AFP)
Not the actual -- and long dead -- former US presidents, of course, but samples of their hair. Celestis, a Texas-based company that specializes in space burials...
Russia 'expected' to launch rescue ship to ISS on Feb 24: official
Feb 18, 2023 (AFP)
"The launch is expected on February 24," a spokesman for the Roscosmos space agency told AFP. Last Monday, the space agency said it had delayed the launch of th...
Biology and Robotics Research Occupy Crew
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
Two Expedition 68 astronauts investigated how living in space affects the way a crew member reaches for and grasps objects. NASA Flight Engineer Josh Cassada ha...
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