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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...

NASA astronaut scheduled for launch to space station Thursday

Apr 08, 2020 (UPI)

Liftoff of the Soyuz rocket is planned for 4:05 a.m. EDT from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome. That will start a six-hour journey, orbiting the Earth four times be...

China becomes world's top patent filer: UN

Apr 07, 2020 (AFP)

A record 265,800 international patent applications were filed last year, a hike of 5.2-percent from 2018, the World Intellectual Property Organisation said in i...

Boeing to fly second uncrewed Starliner orbital flight test for NASA

Apr 07, 2020 (SPX)

The agency's Commercial Crew Program is a unique approach to human spaceflight in which NASA provides a set of mission and safety requirements and private compa...

Oita Partners with Virgin Orbit to establish first horizontal spaceport in Asia

Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)

Virgin Orbit and Oita Prefecture have agreed to commence a joint technical study to facilitate development of the future spaceport. Oita Prefecture is widely re...

Five MIT payloads deployed on the International Space Station

Mar 31, 2020 (SPX)

This first launch to the ISS represents a key milestone in the schedule of iterative microgravity testing that the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) undertakes...

Construction of Russian National Space Center to be finished in Moscow in 2023

Mar 27, 2020 (Sputnik)

"We plan to finish the construction of the National Space Center in 2023," the corporation said in the materials published on its website. Previously, the const...

Coronavirus pandemic will not cause delays in ISS crew return says Roscosmos

Mar 26, 2020 (Sputnik)

"Roscosmos does not think that it makes sense to delay the return to Earth of the ISS-62 long-duration mission crew. Yes, there are some restrictions from the K...

Revisiting decades-old Voyager 2 data, scientists find one more secret

Mar 26, 2020 (SPX)

Over the next few hours, Voyager 2 flew within 50,600 miles (81,433 kilometers) of Uranus' cloud tops, collecting data that revealed two new rings, 11 new moons...

Boeing's first manned Starliner to be launched to ISS on 31 August

Mar 24, 2020 (Sputnik)

"The launch of the first manned Starliner spacecraft is scheduled for 31 August", the source said. In December 2019, the Starliner spaceship set off on its firs...

An astronaut's tips for living in space or anywhere

Mar 24, 2020 (SPX)

Nearly 20 years successfully living on the International Space Station and more than 50 flying in space did not happen by accident. NASA astronauts and psycholo...

NASA leadership assessing mission impacts of coronavirus

Mar 23, 2020 (SPX)

"We are going to take care of our people. That's our first priority," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "Technology allows us to do a lot of what we need...

New Spinoff publication shares how NASA innovations benefit life on Earth

Mar 19, 2020 (JPL)

NASA's diverse missions spur the creation and improvement of thousands of new products that make life better for people around the world. Dozens of the latest e...

How Space Station research is helping NASA's plans to explore the Moon and Beyond

Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)

Almost 20 years of human habitation aboard the International Space Station and a growing body of research conducted there are contributing important insights in...

NASA, SpaceX plan return to human spaceflight from U.S. soil in mid-May

Mar 19, 2020 (UPI)

The announcement late Wednesday was expected, as the first flight with astronauts of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule. The spacecraft would carry Bob Behnken and Do...

Mission Control adjusts to coronavirus conditions

Mar 19, 2020 (ESA)

So how do they keep missions flying when a viral pandemic puts the people of the Agency at risk? The first priority is the health and well-being of the workforc...

Science takes time, even in a lab moving 17,500 miles per hour

Mar 16, 2020 (SPX)

A prime example is the ongoing Fluid Shifts investigation. When astronauts began spending months at a time on station, they experienced a number of physical cha...

Beyond human toll, coronavirus could shake up global politics

Mar 13, 2020 (AFP)

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has infected more than 130,000 people globally, strikes a world already in flux with the rise of nationalists such as US President ...

Astronauts grounded in Russia's Star City over virus

Mar 12, 2020 (AFP)

The next launch to the International Space Station is due to blast off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on April 9 with Russian cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Iv...

Orbion and Xplore partner to accelerate deep space exploration

Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)

By innovating the manufacturing process to achieve new high-volume production standards, Orbion and Xplore will deliver the efficiency and affordability necessa...