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NASA awards contract for Cold Stowage II
Dec 18, 2020 (SPX)
Cold Stowage II is a single award, cost-no-fee contract with cost-no-fee and firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task orders. The new contr...
Spinoff highlights NASA technology paying dividends in US economy
Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)
The latest edition of NASA's Spinoff publication highlights dozens of companies that have benefited from cooperation with NASA. This cooperation means investmen...
Hibernating lemurs may be the key to cryogenic sleep for human space travel
Dec 15, 2020 (The Conversation)
We can turn to nature for guidance and a potential solution to this challenge. It's cold and dark out there Space is unforgiving. In this freezing void of darkn...
Fertilizer made from urine could enable space agriculture
Dec 15, 2020 (SPX)
One of the foremost challenges facing any intended long-term settlement, be it in the Antarctic or on Mars (perhaps in the near future), is achieving some degre...
NASA exploration mission integral to 2020 National Space Policy
Dec 10, 2020 (SPX)
"The National Space Policy reflects bold leadership in this resurgent era of space exploration, as Americans once again step beyond Earth orbit, starting with t...
Researchers discover a new superhighway system in the Solar System
Dec 10, 2020 (SPX)
They could be used to send spacecraft to the far reaches of our planetary system relatively fast, and to monitor and understand near-Earth objects that might co...
Russian cosmonauts to receive Sputnik virus jab
Dec 09, 2020 (AFP)
Last week Russia launched its mass vaccination programme using Sputnik V, which has been named after a Soviet-era satellite. Developers say it is 95 percent eff...
NASA, Boeing complete series of Starliner parachute tests
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
The campaign, developed by both Boeing and NASA, used six balloon drop tests of a Starliner test article to gather supplemental performance data on the spacecra...
Nanoracks Bishop airlock takes flight
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
"We came up with this idea five years ago. In those five quick years, we've gone from being known as the 'CubeSat' deployment company to an organization that is...
COVID-19 drug research and bio-mining launching to the International Space Station
Dec 07, 2020 (ESA)
COVID-19 medicine Scientists will use Europe's commercial ICE Cubes Service to test a COVID-19 medicine in microgravity in order to better understand how remdes...
Turkey's Space Strategy: Trilateral Cooperation With Russia, Kazakhstan is Logical, Agency Head Says
Dec 07, 2020 (Sputnik)
On 12 November, Turkey's state-owned company Roketsan, one of the largest defence contractors, announced yet another successful rocket launch from the Black Sea...
SpaceX to carry heart tissue, fiber optics lab to space station
Dec 04, 2020 (UPI)
A Falcon 9 rocket has been prepared for liftoff at 11:39 a.m. EST from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Thick clouds could delay the launch attem...
Rad dishes in space
Dec 03, 2020 (ESA)
Located in Europe's Columbus module, the NASA experiment is the latest in the study of plants growing in microgravity. With plans to visit the Moon and Mars, fu...
Voyager 1 and 2 detect new kind of solar electron burst
Dec 03, 2020 (UPI)
The phenomenon was described Thursday in the Astrophysical Journal by a team of physicists led by the University of Iowa. The Voyager spacecraft were launched i...
Proposed New Russian Space Station Will Be Able to Monitor the Entire World
Dec 01, 2020 (Sputnik)
Russia's next orbital space station may be deployed at an orbit that will allow it to keep an eye on the entire surface of the Earth, and the Arctic region in p...
Orion could face months of delay following power unit failure
Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)
While powering up the spacecraft to prepare for the pressurization of the crew module uprighting system, which ensures the capsule is oriented upward after spla...
Russia's Energia suggests building national space station
Nov 27, 2020 (Sputnik)
"Russia has commitments regarding the ISS through 2025. Several elements are already seriously damaged and about to stop functioning. Many of them are impossibl...
From capsules to cranberries, NASA helps keep Thanksgiving food safe
Nov 26, 2020 (SPX)
Today, outbreaks of illness from packaged food are exceedingly rare, in part because the industry has almost universally adopted a system created for astronaut ...
Home away from home planet
Nov 25, 2020 (ESA)
The ESA astronaut of French nationality lived and worked on the Space Station for 196 days during his first mission, Proxima, between November 2016 and June 201...
EU plans data shakeup to boost home-grown innovation
Nov 25, 2020 (AFP)
From autos to vaccines, access to industrial data is critical to the future of the global economy and the EU is worried that lack of trust among member states w...
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