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Astronauts to return from space station next week: NASA
Nov 06, 2021 (AFP)
The four members of the Crew-2 mission, including a French and a Japanese astronaut, will therefore return to Earth before the arrival of a replacement crew, wh...
Mind the stars
Nov 05, 2021 (ESA)
As Thomas nears the end of his six-month mission Alpha on the Space Station, he took this image, noting that living on the International Space Station "really f...
NASA, SpaceX Reviewing Commercial Crew Rotation Plans
Nov 05, 2021 (SPX)
Mission teams now are considering whether to return the agency's SpaceX Crew-2 mission from the space station ahead of launching the next crew rotation due to t...
NASA could return astronauts on space station before replacements arrive
Nov 04, 2021 (AFP)
The four members of the Crew-2 mission, including a French and a Japanese astronaut, are due to return to Earth this month after spending about six months on bo...
New roles, combined offices for NASA Administrator Leadership Team
Nov 02, 2021 (SPX)
OTPS is being established to provide data- and evidence-driven technology, policy, and strategy advice to NASA leadership. The office is a merger of the Office ...
NASA, SpaceX delay ISS mission again for medical issue
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
"The issue is not a medical emergency and not related to COVID-19," NASA said in a statement, without giving further details. The members of "Crew-3" -- US astr...
Making space travel inclusive for all
Oct 29, 2021 (SPX)
The Mission: AstroAccess project aims to answer these questions, starting with a historic parabolic flight that took off from Long Beach on Oct. 17, 2021. A gro...
Could Russia's Zeus TEM be a gamechanger for India's space ambitions
Oct 28, 2021 (Sputnik)
Amid a rising competition between China and the US in terms of space programmes, experts have put their weight behind Russia's Zeus Transportation and Energy Mo...
Russia will fly four tourists into space in 2024
Oct 28, 2021 (Sputnik)
Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos, has signed a preliminary agreement under which two commercial flights of Soyuz spacec...
NASA generated $71 billion in economic impact in 2021
Oct 27, 2021 (UPI)
The report from NASA outlines how its activities, including research and technology, affect the economy. Those activities supported more than 339,000 jobs acros...
Blue Origin, partners announce plans for private space station
Oct 25, 2021 (UPI)
Blue Origin will partner with a Sierra Nevada Corp. subsidiary called Sierra Space, along with Boeing, Redwire Space and Genesis Engineer to make the space stat...
New far-out NASA 'travel' video: kayaking on Titan, skydiving on exoplanet
Oct 25, 2021 (UPI)
The video depicts wild, even wacky, scenes of people kayaking in deadly methane lakes on Saturn's moon Titan, skydiving on exoplanet HD 40307-g, which is 42 lig...
Bezos' Blue Origin announces plans for private space station
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
"Orbital Reef," described in a press statement as a mixed-use business park in space that will support microgravity research and manufacturing, is a joint ventu...
Nanoracks, Voyager Space, and Lockheed Martin to develop commercial space module
Oct 25, 2021 (SPX)
To meet U.S. government, international space agency, and commercial needs in space, these industry leaders will develop Starlab specifically to enable the growi...
Ex-NSA employee pleads guilty to selling classified information to Russia
Oct 24, 2021 (UPI)
Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 31, of Colorado Springs, pleaded guilty Monday to six counts of attempting to transmit classified National Defense Information to an agen...
Printable steak, insect protein, fungus among NASA space food idea winners
Oct 22, 2021 (UPI)
The space agency believes its ongoing Deep Space Food Challenge is vital to keeping astronauts healthy and in good spirits during long isolation. NASA announced...
NASA announces winners of Deep Space Food Challenge
Oct 21, 2021 (SPX)
NASA has selected 18 U.S. teams to receive a total of $450,000 for ideas that could feed astronauts on future missions. Each team will receive $25,000. Addition...
NASA looks beyond SpaceX, Boeing contracts for space station commutes
Oct 20, 2021 (UPI)
SpaceX has provided such transport services with the Crew Dragon capsule since May 2020, while Boeing also holds a contract. But Boeing is four years behind sch...
NASA to resume spacewalks after investigation into 'close call'
Oct 19, 2021 (UPI)
The review was the last step in an investigation into a "close call" on a spacewalk in March. Three spacewalks are planned, beginning sometime in mid-November, ...
Russian film crew says shooting in space a 'huge challenge'
Oct 19, 2021 (AFP)
Yulia Peresild, one of Russia's most glamorous actresses, and film director Klim Shipenko returned to Earth on Sunday after spending 12 days on the Internationa...
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