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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, Japanese astronauts plan spacewalk Friday

Mar 04, 2021 (UPI)

Rubins, of NASA, and Noguchi, of the Japanese Space Agency, will spend about 6 1/2 hours outside the orbiting space station starting about 7 a.m. EST. They will...

'Astounding' Mars rover landing inspired world, Biden says in call to NASA

Mar 04, 2021 (UPI)

The call included thousands of JPL employees, JPL Director Michael Watkins and Swati Mohan, an operations lead for the Feb. 8 landing. Biden made the call just ...

Fly me to the Moon: Japan billionaire offers space seats

Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)

Yusaku Maezawa, an online fashion tycoon, was announced in 2018 as the first man to book a spot aboard the lunar spaceship being developed by SpaceX. Maezawa, w...

NASA, SpaceX to launch 2nd Commercial Crew Rotation Mission to ISS

Mar 02, 2021 (SPX)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission will carry astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and...

Boeing Starliner test flight postponed

Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)

The test, which had previously been postponed until early April, will suffer another delay, this time due to unprecedented cold temperatures in Texas that cause...

China extends innovation lead over US

Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)

Even as Covid-19 took a vast human and economic toll, international patent applications continued to grow strongly, with China leading strong gains from Asia. A...

Kentucky firm plans orbital mini space station in two years

Mar 01, 2021 (UPI)

Lexington-based Space Tango has small research containers, or CubeLabs, on the space station. Bustling business and growing need for such experiments in microgr...

SpaceX Crew-6 ISS launch scrubbed; Empty Soyuz docks as replacement

Feb 27, 2021 (UPI)

NASA and SpaceX were scheduled to launch a Flacon 9 rocket topped by the Dragon Endeavor spacecraft at 1:45 a.m. Monday from Launch Complex 39A in Florida's Cap...

NASA spacewalk Sunday will prepare for new solar power

Feb 27, 2021 (UPI)

Astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover plan to exit the space station around 6 a.m. EST for the 6 1/2-hour expedition some 250 miles above the Earth. Rubins a...

Futuristic space technology concepts selected by NASA for initial study

Feb 26, 2021 (JPL)

Early-stage research into futuristic space ideas - a lunar levitation track system, light bending lunar power system, method for making soil from asteroid mater...

Suspected breach plugged in Russian ISS module as air leak hunt continues

Feb 25, 2021 (Sputnik)

Dmitry Belkin, a senior press officer at the Russian state space agency Roscosmos, said the crew identified several potential sources of the leak in the Zvezda ...

Paragon delivers key life support system to ISS

Feb 25, 2021 (SPX)

Paragon's Brine Processor System is a key part of the overall Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which protects, preserves and promotes huma...

Space snapshot

Feb 24, 2021 (ESA)

It is an exciting time for space. With NASA's latest rover safely on Mars and ESA's call for the next class of astronauts, the space industry is teeming with po...

Cancer survivor to join first all-private spaceflight on SpaceX's Dragon

Feb 24, 2021 (UPI)

The mission, called Inspiration4, is scheduled for launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida as early as October for four private citizens. They plan to orbi...

Cygnus resupply ship bolted to ISS Unity Module

Feb 23, 2021 (SPX)

The spacecraft, which launched at 12:36 p.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 20, on an Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, brings approximately 8...

Astronautics training for space professionals

Feb 23, 2021 (SPX)

The term "astronautics" was first thought to be the theory and practice of navigation beyond Earth's atmosphere. It was coined by analogy with aeronautics, as t...

Russia launches crew-less Soyuz to ISS as replacement

Feb 23, 2021 (UPI)

The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft was launched with 948 pounds of supplies for the astronauts from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:24 p.m. EST, which was br...

Northrop Grumman ready for next ISS supply run

Feb 19, 2021 (SPX)

Liftoff of the Antares rocket is scheduled for Feb. 20 at 12:36 p.m. EST from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A on Wallops Island, at NASA's Wallops Fl...

NASA's Perseverance rover beams back spectacular new images

Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)

The high-resolution still was extracted from a video taken by the descent stage of the spacecraft that had transported the rover from Earth. At that moment, the...