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After ISS command change, NASA's Crew-3 prepares to undock for trip home
May 04, 2021 (UPI)
Raja Chari, Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn of NASA, along with Matthias Maurer of Germany, are expected to board their Dragon spacecraft and close the hatch at ...
US Aerospace Company Blue Origin to Begin Selling Tickets for Tourist Trips in Space
May 04, 2021 (Sputnik)
"It's time. You can buy the very first seat on New Shepard. Sign up to learn how at blueorigin.com. Details coming May 5th," Blue Origin said via Twitter. The c...
Bill Nelson, head of NASA, hails 'new day in space'
May 03, 2021 (AFP)
With his hand on a Bible, Nelson took the oath of office from Vice President Kamala Harris as he officially took up the role of NASA administrator. "It's a new ...
China steps on protecting technology 'fall short': USTR
Apr 30, 2021 (AFP)
China also was the source of most counterfeit goods used to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, including masks and sanitizers, the US Trade Representative said in an...
Space tourism - 20 years in the making - is finally ready for launch
Apr 30, 2021 (The Conversation)
NASA has long been hesitant to play host to space tourists, so Russia - looking for sources of money post-Cold War in the 1990s and 2000s - has been the only op...
Top Things to Know about Space Station Crew Handovers
Apr 30, 2021 (SPX)
What does this mean? Read below to find out. What's the difference between a direct and indirect handover? A handover is the period between the start of one spa...
China wants new space station to be more international
Apr 30, 2021 (XNA)
China's space station, guided by the idea of building a community with a shared future for humanity, will become a common home transcending Earthly bonds and an...
Massive tech show set to return in person in 2022
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
The Consumer Technology Association said the show which traditionally draws tens of thousands of industry professionals and technology firms large and small wou...
NASA astronaut paints a picture of success growing plants in space
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
The pak choi grew for so long that it began to flower as part of its reproduction cycle. Hopkins' efforts in eclipsing the mark included using a small paintbrus...
Ushering in the next generation of technology
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
In tune with these requirements, a new publication in Nature Materials has successfully tweaked low cost semiconducting materials, quite similar to the composit...
NASA's Crew-4 docks at ISS
Apr 27, 2021 (UPI)
Crew-4 joins Expedition 67 crew of Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, all of NASA, Matthias Maurer of ESA, and cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Sergey Kor...
Stone skipping techniques can improve reentry of space vehicles
Apr 26, 2021 (SPX)
In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, scientists from several universities in China reveal several key factors that influence the number of bounces a skippin...
Alpha: Second Space Station mission for ESA's Thomas Pesquet begins
Apr 24, 2021 (ESA)
The crew spent around 23 hours orbiting Earth and catching up with the International Space Station after their launch on 23 April at 10:49 BST (11:49 CEST, 05:4...
Twenty years of Europeans on the Space Station
Apr 22, 2021 (ESA)
When Umberto arrived, he flew on the Space Shuttle and docked with a Space Station that consisted of just three modules: Unity, Zarya and Zvezda. Since then, 18...
Astronaut Kate Rubins: Fresh food in space is rare, desired
Apr 22, 2021 (UPI)
"We don't get a lot of fresh food in space and so, you know, it's pretty funny to get very excited about a spinach salad, but I think that's the best thing in t...
Crew-2 set for ISS Mission to conduct microgravity science
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
The Crew-2 astronauts will join the other members of Expedition 65, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, f...
ISS sets its research scope on longer space missions
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
The latest arrival of four more astronauts to the ISS, due to blast off aboard a SpaceX rocket from Florida on Thursday, will open the door for new experiments ...
First Module of Russia's New Space Station to Be Ready for Launch in 2025, Roscosmos Announces
Apr 21, 2021 (Sputnik)
In mid-April, the Russian Academy of Sciences announced that Russia would terminate its participation in the ISS project due to worn-out technical conditions an...
Astronauts' mental health risks tested in the Antarctic
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
To better understand the psychological hurdles faced by astronauts, University of Houston professor of psychology Candice Alfano and her team developed the Ment...
Science without gravity at the International Space Station
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
The ISS, which orbits about 250 miles above Earth, is as large as a football field inside and divided up like a beehive into spaces where the crew can carry out...
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