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Life support upgrades arrive at station, improve reliability for Moon, Mars Missions

Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)

Improving life support with reliable systems will help enable human exploration to the Moon and Mars. Building on experience gained at the space station over th...

Plant growth on ISS has global impacts on Earth

Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)

The Advanced Astroculture (ADVASC) investigation, led by Weijia Zhou, Ph.D., formerly of the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics, University of W...

Visitors vanish from Asia's most visited sites

Mar 09, 2020 (AFP)

Asia's most Instagrammable sites - temples, promenades, shopping streets, museums and mausoleums - are empty, victims of a virus keeping visitors at home. The u...

NASA update on Starliner flight test review

Mar 09, 2020 (SPX)

During the investigation, the team identified several technical and organizational issues related to Boeing's work. Separate from the independent team, NASA rev...

Safe crops as a dietary supplement to assist long-distance space missions

Mar 09, 2020 (SPX)

In a new study in Frontiers in Plant Science, Dr. Christina Khodadad, a researcher at the Kennedy Space Center, and co-authors report the successful cultivation...

An astronaut's guide to applying to be an astronaut

Mar 06, 2020 (SPX)

It is totally worth it! For my whole life, I have wanted this job. I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was three years old. The goal...

Study confirms space-grown lettuce nutritious, safe

Mar 06, 2020 (UPI)

Currently, astronauts must go without fresh produce. All of their meals are sterilized for the trip to space by heating, freeze drying or irradiation. Nutrients...

SpaceX launches 20th space station cargo mission

Mar 06, 2020 (UPI)

Liftoff came as scheduled at 11:50 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which is adjacent to Kennedy Space Center. The mission, ...

Xplore selects Orbit Fab's RAFTI design standard for deep space missions

Mar 06, 2020 (SPX)

It is ideal for mission destinations in any orbit, and thus aligns with Xplore's ability to fly missions at destinations from Earth to the Moon, Mars, Venus, La...

Gastronauts: Developing food ready for the next space race

Mar 06, 2020 (SPX)

But how to provide genuinely exciting and mouth-watering food that can also stir up happy memories of a home millions of miles away in the confines of zero grav...

Axiom Space plans first-ever fully private human spaceflight mission to International Space Station

Mar 06, 2020 (SPX)

"This history-making flight will represent a watershed moment in the march toward universal and routine access to space," Axiom CEO Michael Suffredini said. "Th...

NASA: Boeing software team had too much power over Starliner capsule

Mar 06, 2020 (UPI)

The finding was among 61 corrective actions NASA and Boeing have agreed to make before moving ahead with another Starliner mission. A test flight in December fa...

Bartolomeo external platform to expand commercial usage of the ISS

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

"This project 'made in Germany' is making a significant contribution to the commercialisation of the ISS. Bartolomeo is Europe's first private external platform...

'Digital disruption' a game-changer for climate: Future Earth report

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

Historically, the report says, climate and digital agendas have been approached as two independent issues but increasingly are recognized as intertwined. Humans...

Interference testing for Orion spacecraft begins

Mar 04, 2020 (ESA)

Electromagnetic compatibility or EMC testing is routine for spacecraft. All electronics emit some form of electromagnetic waves that can cause interference with...

Singaporean Daren Tang elected to head global patent agency: UN

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

After a hotly contested and at times politicised race, Daren Tang won over five other candidates, including Chinese national Wang Binying, who has served as dep...

Hydrogen Could Make a Green Energy Future Closer than We Think

Mar 03, 2020 (SPX)

NASA developed a lot of initial hydrogen production, which makes it safe and effective. The transition is inevitable, and it is up to the citizens of the world ...

Wastewater recycling project could someday improve human space flight

Mar 03, 2020 (SPX)

While studying the life support systems on the International Space Station, Trzinski learned that filtration of the station's precious water is one of the stati...

No going back: Bali's Chinese tourists fear virus-hit homeland

Feb 29, 2020 (AFP)

Concerns over the rapidly-spreading outbreak prompted Indonesia to shut down all flights to and from China this month, hammering the bottom lines of restaurants...

Book Review: Alcohol in Space - Past, Present and Future

Feb 28, 2020 (SPX)

Featuring 7 chapters, this volume includes a brief history of alcohol and society, booze in science fiction, retro-flections of drinking in space, space beer, w...