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NASA announces 10 latest astronaut trainees
Dec 06, 2021 (AFP)
The 2021 class was whittled down from a field of more than 12,000 applicants and will now report for duty in January at the Johnson Space Center in Texas, where...
A Cornucopia of Microbial Foods
Dec 03, 2021 (SPX)
Today, DARPA announced Cornucopia, a program that seeks to enable food production on demand and on site, an advance that could significantly reduce the logistic...
NASA astronauts complete ISS spacewalk
Dec 03, 2021 (AFP)
Astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron headed outside the space laboratory on Thursday, replacing a faulty antenna and restoring its capability. "It was a...
Northrop Grumman signs NASA to design space station for low earth orbit
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
"Under this agreement, the Northrop Grumman team will deliver a free flying space station design that is focused on commercial operations to meet the demands of...
NASA selects companies to develop commercial destinations in space
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
The total estimated award amount for all three funded Space Act Agreements is $415.6 million. The companies that received awards are: + Blue Origin of Kent, Was...
NASA's Second Pepper Harvest Sets Record on Space Station
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
"PH-04 pushed the state-of-the-art in space crop production significantly," said Matt Romeyn, principal investigator for PH-04 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center ...
NASA awards $415 mn to fund three commercial space stations
Dec 02, 2021 (AFP)
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, aerospace company Nanoracks and defense contractor Northrop Grumman won $130 million, $160 million and $125.6 million contracts respect...
Nanoracks led team want to build a commercial space station
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
"While today marks a major milestone for Nanoracks and our Starlab team, the impact goes far beyond this award," said Dr. Amela Wilson, CEO at Nanoracks. "To re...
Vice President Highlights STEM in First National Space Council Meeting
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
During the meeting, Vice President Harris led a discussion about how the United States should capitalize on opportunities in space, including promoting peaceful...
Astronauts conclude spacewalk to replace antenna at space station
Dec 02, 2021 (UPI)
The new antenna was installed at around 9:45 a.m. EST, which NASA said was almost 90 minutes ahead of schedule. The pair spent the next few hours performing add...
NASA Leadership visits Marshall to discuss Artemis, future exploration
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
It was their first visit to Marshall in their current roles. Nelson and Melroy visited Marshall's Surface and Transit Habitats Environmental Control and Life Su...
Vice President Harris outlines space policy aimed at 'growing threats'
Dec 01, 2021 (UPI)
Harris outlined the framework before the U.S. National Space Council, which she chairs, in Washington, D.C., during her first meeting with the council Wednesday...
Dragons-Eye View
Dec 01, 2021 (ESA)
The jewel of human cooperation and ingenuity that is the International Space Station shines brightly in this image captured by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet from...
Russia's new docking module arrives at ISS
Nov 30, 2021 (SPX)
To make room for Prichal, the uncrewed Progress 78 cargo craft undocked from Nauka at 6:23 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 25, and burned up upon reentry in the Earth's atm...
NASA postpones ISS spacewalk due to debris risk
Nov 30, 2021 (AFP)
Astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron had been due to head outside the space laboratory later Tuesday on a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk to replace a fau...
U.S. and Saudi Arabia explore space for peaceful purposes
Nov 29, 2021 (UPI)
The agreement is an extension of the Jeddah Communique, a document outlining the strategic partnership between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States...
SpaceX resupply cargo capsule docks with International Space Station
Nov 27, 2021 (UPI)
The private company confirmed the docking at 7:39 a.m. Liftoff at pad 39A had been delayed from Tuesday because of bad weather. At 2:30 p.m. Sunday, the rocket ...
Russia's Prichal module docks at ISS
Nov 26, 2021 (AFP)
The new addition to the ISS completed an automated docking with the nadir (Earth-facing) port of Russia's Nauka lab module at 1519 GMT, it said. Roscosmos chief...
Thales Alenia Space invests in advanced technology for human space flight
Nov 26, 2021 (SPX)
The only company in Europe to use this type of processing for pressurized habitation modules, Thales Alenia Space introduced friction welding technology in 2015...
Russia launches new docking module to ISS
Nov 24, 2021 (AFP)
A live feed from Roscosmos showed the carrier rocket taking off against a dark evening sky from the Russia-leased spaceport at the scheduled time of 1306 GMT. P...
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