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Commercial Soyuz Flight to International Space Station Planned For 2022-2023
Apr 28, 2020 (Sputnik)
According to the documents, the launch of a Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft with a Russian cosmonaut as crew commander and two unknown crew members is planned for Octobe...
Pentagon formally releases Navy videos of unidentified object encounters
Apr 27, 2020 (UPI)
The videos, one from 2004 and two from 2017, have been circulating since their unauthorized leaks, and the Navy has attested to their authenticity. They were of...
Russian 'Victory Rocket' cargo flight docks at ISS
Apr 26, 2020 (Sputnik)
An MS-14 cargo spacecraft is docking at the International Space Station on Saturday. Earlier, the "Victory Rocket" was launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmo...
Russian cargo capsule docks with ISS
Apr 25, 2020 (AFP)
The Progress capsule was launched atop a giant Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, reaching the space station in just three hours and 20 mi...
CASIS welcomes new NASA ISS National Lab program executive
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
In its response to the IRT's report, NASA laid out action items, including the identification of an ISS National Lab program executive at NASA Headquarters to s...
Getting Down to Earth with CAVES in Space
Apr 23, 2020 (ESA)
Since 2011, ESA's Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills course has been taking astronauts below Earth's surfac...
NASA researchers look to the future on Earth Day 50
Apr 22, 2020 (SPX)
The first black-and-white satellite images of Earth were just ten years old: a swirling mass of white clouds over back oceans. The first measurements of Earth's...
Space Station science payload operations continue amid pandemic
Apr 22, 2020 (SPX)
On March 29, as Marshall responded to the coronavirus pandemic and began transitioning operations to Stage 4 in the NASA response framework, the real-time links...
Space tourists will celebrate New Year 2022 in orbit for first time
Apr 21, 2020 (Sputnik)
The launch of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft with two tourists and a Russian cosmonaut as the crew commander is planned for December 2021. The return to Earth is sc...
NASA Astronauts Meir, Morgan, Crewmate Skripochka Return from Space Station
Apr 20, 2020 (SPX)
The trio departed the International Space Station at 9:53 p.m. EDT Thursday and made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 1:16 a.m. Friday in Kazakhstan (11:16...
Astronauts land back on Earth transformed by pandemic
Apr 17, 2020 (AFP)
Andrew Morgan, Jessica Meir and Oleg Skripochka touched down in central Kazakhstan at 0516 GMT in the first returning mission since the World Health Organizatio...
ISS Nat Lab issues RFPs to leverage external facility for materials/device testing
Apr 14, 2020 (SPX)
Investigators are encouraged to propose flight concepts that will leverage the Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) Flight Facility from Alp...
NASA advances food-in-space technology
Apr 14, 2020 (UPI)
While astronauts in orbit harvest and sample leafy greens grown in space, scientists on the ground in Florida develop new space crops using the same equipment. ...
NASA awards propellants and life support services contract
Apr 10, 2020 (SPX)
As a multi-user spaceport for launches of government and commercial spaceflights, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Sta...
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, crewmates arrive safely at ISS
Apr 10, 2020 (SPX)
The Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft carrying Cassidy, along with Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, docked to the station's Poisk s...
Space station crew blast off despite virus-hit build up
Apr 09, 2020 (AFP)
Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Russia's Roscosmos space agency and NASA's Chris Cassidy launched at 08:05 GMT from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhs...
Bartolomeo connected to Columbus
Apr 09, 2020 (ESA)
Bartolomeo, named after the younger brother of Christopher Columbus, was installed by robotic arm on the forward-facing side of the space laboratory on 2 April ...
Space station crew to blast off despite virus-hit build up
Apr 09, 2020 (AFP)
Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Russia's Roscosmos space agency and NASA's Chris Cassidy will blast off at 08:05 GMT from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in K...
ISS crew blast off against virus-hit build up
Apr 09, 2020 (AFP)
Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Russia's Roscosmos space agency and NASA's Chris Cassidy launched at 08:05 GMT from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhs...
No press, no family: Space crew set for launch during pandemic
Apr 08, 2020 (AFP)
Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Russia's Roscosmos space agency and NASA's Chris Cassidy will blast off from Kazakhstan for a six-month mission at 08:05 GM...
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