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Mom and daughter bound for space after winning Virgin Galactic prize
Nov 24, 2021 (AFP)
Keisha Schahaff, 44, said she wanted to cross the final frontier with her 17-year-old, a science student living in Britain who dreams of one day working for NAS...
Daughter of first American in space on next Blue Origin flight
Nov 23, 2021 (AFP)
Jeff Bezos' space company announced Tuesday its third crewed flight will launch on December 9, from Blue's base in West Texas. Churchley and American television...
NASA awards contract for bed rest studies
Nov 23, 2021 (ESA)
The $49.9 million Bedrest Studies Contract will support a series of bed rest studies at the company's facility in Cologne, Germany. Services also may be require...
NASA temporarily loses communication with Orion spacecraft
Nov 23, 2021 (UPI)
NASA said in a blog statement that communication was lost temporarily while reconfiguring the communication link between the Orion spacecraft and Deep Space Net...
With new supplies, space station astronauts to research mending broken bones
Nov 21, 2021 (UPI)
SpaceX will launch a resupply mission as early as Tuesday to deliver a payload of items developed by commercial companies that need to be tested in orbit. The l...
Japanese space tourists arrive at launch site ahead of ISS trip
Nov 19, 2021 (AFP)
Maezawa's mission -- set for departure on December 8 -- will be the first to take space tourists to the ISS in over a decade. The 45-year-old tycoon is the foun...
Crew operations aboard Space Station return to normal
Nov 19, 2021 (SPX)
The largest risk from the debris was in the first 24 hours and telemetry from the space station indicates no issues during that time. About 1:20 a.m. EST today,...
Moonshot: Japan recruits first new astronauts in 13 years
Nov 19, 2021 (AFP)
Women are strongly encouraged to put themselves forward for the job, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said, as all seven of the nation's current as...
First all-private space station mission to include two dozen experiments
Nov 17, 2021 (UPI)
Axiom Space said former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria will command the crew of four, who will fly to the space station on a SpaceX rocket in February. Th...
NASA receives 11th consecutive clean financial audit opinion
Nov 16, 2021 (SPX)
The rating is the best possible audit opinion, certifying that NASA's financial statements conform with accepted accounting principles for federal agencies and ...
NASA Administrator Statement on Russian ASAT Test
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
"Earlier today, due to the debris generated by the destructive Russian Anti-Satellite (ASAT) test, ISS astronauts and cosmonauts undertook emergency procedures ...
SpaceX capsule with crew of four docks with ISS
Nov 12, 2021 (AFP)
This mission known as Crew-3 is part of NASA's multibillion-dollar partnership with Elon Musk's space company, signed after the Space Shuttle program ended in 2...
Matthias Maurer arrives at the International Space Station
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
Maurer is the second European to fly to the Space Station as a mission specialist on board a SpaceX Dragon. He will do so alongside NASA astronauts Raja Chari (...
Orbital Assembly Corporation promote space hotels in LEO for investment
Nov 11, 2021 (SPX)
"Commercial Space tourism became a reality this year and Orbital Assembly is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the intense interest in livable space faciliti...
Virgin Galactic announces Q3 2021 financial results
Nov 10, 2021 (SPX)
"We are entering our fleet enhancement period with a clear roadmap for increasing the durability, reliability and predictability of our vehicles in preparation ...
Off-world colony simulation reveals changes in human communication over time with Earth
Nov 10, 2021 (SPX)
However, those who make the journey will not only have to survive on a freezing planet with no breathable atmosphere, but live in isolation unlike any other exp...
S.S. Sally Ride delivers experiments to International Space Station
Nov 09, 2021 (UPI)
Crews completed the installation process shortly after 8 a.m. after astronauts on the ISS snagged the S.S. Sally Ride Cygnus spacecraft with its robotic arm ear...
Virgin Galactic has sold 100 more space tickets
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
The current price of the fare is $450,000 per seat, well above the $200,000-$250,000 paid by some 600 customers from 2005 to 2014. In total, the company has now...
Harris to announce first National Space Council meeting in nearly a year
Nov 08, 2021 (UPI)
Her announcement will come Friday during her visit to the Goddard Space Flight Center, which will focus on efforts to use space missions to monitor and address ...
High winds delay ISS astronauts' return to Earth
Nov 07, 2021 (AFP)
The group including France's Thomas Pesquet, Japan's Akihiko Hoshide and US spacefarers Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will undock at 1905 GMT on Monday. "D...
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