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NASA chief of human spaceflight resigns ahead of launch
May 20, 2020 (UPI)
Doug Loverro resigned on Monday and told The Washington Post his departure has to do with NASA's Artemis project, which aims to return astronauts to the moon. "...
Ultra-thin sail could speed journey to other star systems
May 20, 2020 (ESA)
Traditional spacecraft carry fuel to power their journeys and use complex orbital manoeuvres around other planets. But the weight of the fuel makes them difficu...
Last of NASA's vital, versatile science 'EXPRESS Racks' heads to Space Station
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
Among the manifested cargo aboard the spacecraft will be the final NASA "EXpedite the PRocessing of Experiments to the Space Station" multipurpose payload shelv...
Searching with Sasquatch: Recovering Orion
May 18, 2020 (SPX)
During the parachute deploy sequence, hardware will be jettisoned and fall into the Pacific Ocean below while the recovery ship awaits near the landing site. Ke...
Roscosmos confirms signing contract for NASA Astronaut's flight to ISS
May 14, 2020 (Sputnik)
"[Today], a contract was signed for the transportation of one American astronaut to the ISS on the Russian manned spacecraft Soyuz MS in the fall of 2020. We do...
JAXA HTV-9 spacecraft carries science, technology to ISS
May 14, 2020 (SPX)
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) unpiloted H-II Transport Vehicle-9 (HTV-9) carries investigations testing a new livestreaming educational tool, mi...
Spacesuit for the ground
May 13, 2020 (ESA)
ESA's Clean Space initiative is researching greener alternatives to hydrazine but for now this high-energy propellant is being used to fuel almost all satellite...
Marshall team prepares for upcoming Commercial Crew Launch
May 13, 2020 (SPX)
The Commercial Crew Program was formed to facilitate the development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability with the goal of achieving safe, ...
Northrop Grumman's cargo capsule departs space station
May 11, 2020 (UPI)
The Cygnus capsule will spend the next two weeks in orbit, releasing small experimental satellites and hosting an experiment on how fire behaves in microgravity...
NASA Funds Artemis Student Challenges to Inspire Space Exploration
May 08, 2020 (SPX)
Each of these opportunities will build foundational knowledge and introduce students to topics and technologies critical to the success of the agency's Artemis ...
Ready, set, go for COVID-conscious astronaut training
May 07, 2020 (ESA)
At the end of April, Matthias donned personal protective equipment and maintained 2 m distance from instructors to participate in a training module that prepare...
Spider eyes in space
May 07, 2020 (ESA)
This Z-CAM V1 Pro Cinematic camera, shown to the left of NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, was launched to the Space Station in December 2018. It shoots high quality...
Google affiliate abandons futuristic neighborhood project
May 07, 2020 (AFP)
Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's parent Alphabet, had proposed building a carbon-neutral community "from the internet up," where tall buildings would be ...
Astronauts Leave Microbial Fingerprint on Space Station
May 07, 2020 (SPX)
A new study shows that the microorganisms living on surfaces inside the space station so closely resembled those on an astronaut's skin that scientists could te...
Airbus and Xenesis sign payload contract for Bartolomeo Platform on ISS
May 06, 2020 (SPX)
The Xen-Hub is a greater than 10 gigabyte per second optical communications terminal. The terminal was enabled with a technology transfer from the NASA Jet Prop...
NASA builds on investments in US small business' beneficial technologies
May 06, 2020 (SPX)
NASA annually invests in U.S. small businesses with promising new technologies - companies developing better batteries, virtual assistants, lightweight material...
Toys that inspired NASA innovations
May 06, 2020 (SPX)
Baby toys and Martian landers may not be connected thoughts for most people, but toys have served as sources of inspiration for several NASA projects. The conce...
Mission Impossible to Mission Control: Tom Cruise to film in space
May 06, 2020 (AFP)
The "Top Gun" star will fly through the stratosphere to shoot an as-yet-unknown film aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said on Tuesday. The Ame...
NASA Scientist Flies Technology on a Dozen High-Profile Missions
May 05, 2020 (SPX)
With the launch of the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter in February, Paschalidis, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,...
NASA, SpaceX target historic spaceflight despite pandemic
May 02, 2020 (AFP)
Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, both veterans of the Space Shuttle program that was shuttered in 2011, will blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape C...
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