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Galileo will help Lunar Pathfinder navigate around Moon

Mar 19, 2021 (ESA)

Due for launch by the end of 2023 into lunar orbit, the public-private Lunar Pathfinder comsat will offer commercial data relay services to lunar missions - whi...

Reports: Biden to tap Bill Nelson as NASA administrator

Mar 19, 2021 (UPI)

Multiple unnamed sources told The Washington Post, Politico and The Verge that Biden will likely make the announcement by Friday. They added that the White Hous...

Biden nominates former Democratic senator as NASA chief

Mar 19, 2021 (AFP)

The nomination appears to confirm Biden's interest in maintaining US leadership in space as NASA prepares to return to the Moon under the Artemis program, while...

Russia's Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft re-docks on ISS

Mar 19, 2021 (Sputnik)

Sputnik is live from the International Space Station (ISS) as the Soyuz MS-17 space vehicle is being relocated from the station's Rassvet module to its Poisk mo...

Three-man Russian crew launches, headed to ISS

Mar 18, 2021 (UPI)

The spacecraft reached orbit safely. The three men make up the first all-Russian crew to fly to together in more than two decades, the head of Russia's federal ...

Keeping up with Thomas

Mar 17, 2021 (ESA)

Thomas will be the fourth European to hold the post of commander, after ESA astronauts Frank De Winne, Alexander Gerst and Luca Parmitano. During the briefing, ...

ISS crew once again uses tea leaves to locate air leak in Russian module Zvezda

Mar 17, 2021 (Sputnik)

A specialist from the Russian Mission Control Center told cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov that thin strips of paper that were released in the module's access section ...

Air leak in Russia's ISS Zvezda module still unresolved

Mar 15, 2021 (Sputnik)

At about 07:00 GMT on Saturday, ISS cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov told a specialist at the Mission Control Center, located near Moscow, that the pressure in the int...

With SpaceX, ISS enters 'Golden Age' But what comes next

Mar 15, 2021 (AFP)

But though the near- future of this symbol of post-Cold War cooperation is assured, NASA wants to begin disengaging by the end of the decade, leaving a gap that...

NASA says Mark Vande Hei will return from ISS on Russian spacecraft

Mar 14, 2021 (UPI)

The space agency said Vande Hei, who was sent to the ISS in April of last year, is scheduled to land aboard the Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan and return to the...

NASA awards Rapid IV On-Ramp 1 Contract for Spacecraft Systems, Services

Mar 14, 2021 (SPX)

Rapid IV is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that allows the federal government to place firm-fixed price delivery orders for ...

ISS crew to relocate Soyuz to make room for new arrivals

Mar 14, 2021 (SPX)

Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA and Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, both of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, will undoc...

NASA astronauts complete spacewalk

Mar 13, 2021 (UPI)

The astronauts wrapped their spacewalk at 3:01 p.m. EST, according to NASA's Twitter feed, which also live streamed the event. Hopkins and Glover captured video...

Roscosmos, NASA in contradiction over next ISS Commander

Mar 12, 2021 (Sputnik)

NASA's press office told Sputnik that after Soyuz MS-17 dispatches from the ISS on 17 April with Ryzhikov, Kud-Sverchkov and Rubins on board, Walker will become...

Astronauts plan Saturday spacewalk at space station

Mar 12, 2021 (UPI)

Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover will exit the station's Quest airlock about 7:30 a.m. EST to conduct space-based maintenance on the orbiting platform for abou...

Astronauts conclude spacewalk maintenance on International Space Station

Mar 05, 2021 (UPI)

Rubins, of NASA, and Noguchi, of the Japanese Space Agency, installed a device on an airlock cover to prevent it from blowing out when a hatch is opened. The tw...

Youngest American to go into space is also a cancer survivor

Mar 05, 2021 (AFP)

It is a feat made all the more remarkable by her battle to overcome a childhood cancer that robbed the 29-year-old of her dream of becoming an astronaut herself...

Space Traffic Management

Mar 05, 2021 (SPX)

In fact, orbiting debris is a product of negligence. Over the first 60 years of space flight, mission plans ended with the completion of in-space operations. Sa...

NASA and Boeing Evaluating Launch Date for Orbital Flight Test-2

Mar 05, 2021 (SPX)

Previously, the launch was targeted for no earlier than April 2. An important factor the teams are evaluating is the visiting vehicle schedule at the Internatio...

NASA updates ISS pricing to Full Value for Commercial Activities

Mar 05, 2021 (SPX)

Since making these opportunities available, there has been a growing demand for commercial and marketing activities from both traditional aerospace companies an...