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Virgin Galactic opens up prebooking booking option
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
In addition to more than 600 firm reservations it has already taken from Future Astronaut customers from 60 countries, Virgin Galactic has received a consistent...
Vertex Aerospace Awarded $150M NASA Contract
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
NASA selected the incumbent aerospace defense company to provide maintenance and modification support, as well as flight line operations, at its AFRC site and o...
Insects, seaweed and lab-grown meat could be the foods of the future
Feb 26, 2020 (SPX)
These scientists and policy makers think that if only consumers embraced seaweed diets and ate bugs these problems could be solved. But is this the whole story?...
US-China tensions colour race to head global patent agency
Feb 26, 2020 (AFP)
"We want a candidate who comes from a country with a history of protecting IP (intellectual property)," US Ambassador Andrew Bremberg told AFP in a recent inter...
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, dies at 101
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
Johnson's calculations helped put the first man on the Moon in 1969, but she was little known until the Oscar-nominated 2016 movie that told the stories of thre...
NASA selects proposals for student aeronautics, space projects
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
Each award has a four-year performance period and a maximum value of $760,000 for fiscal year 2020. NASA awarded funds to 52 proposals aimed at attracting and r...
Improving shoes, showers, 3D printing: research launching to the Space Station
Feb 20, 2020 (UPI)
The space station, now in its 20th year of continuous human presence, provides opportunities for research by government agencies, private industry, and academic...
Adidas, Delta Faucet prep research projects for International Space Station
Feb 20, 2020 (UPI)
Officials from NASA, as well as representatives from several companies, outlined some of the 20 projects headed to the ISS on March 2 aboard SpaceX's Dragon spa...
Mike Pence Says US to Return Astronauts to Space Using American-Built Rockets Before Summer
Feb 20, 2020 (Sputnik)
"Before we even get to the summer... the United States will return American astronauts to space on American rockets from American soil. We're going back and we'...
Russia's Tikhonov May Be Replaced as Chief of Soyuz MS-16 ISS Mission Over Injury - Source
Feb 20, 2020 (Sputnik)
"Nikolay Tikhonov has sustained an injury, which may prevent him from flying to the ISS. The possibility for cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov to replace him in the cre...
New adventures in beds and baths for spaceflight
Feb 18, 2020 (ESA)
In weightlessness, astronauts' bodies lose muscle and bone density, eyes change, fluids shift to the brain and more - our bodies adapted to life on Earth and ar...
NASA science and cargo head to Space Station
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
The spacecraft launched on an Antares 230+ rocket from the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A at Wallops and is scheduled to arrive at the space ...
Geneva invention show delayed over novel coronavirus
Feb 17, 2020 (AFP)
The show -- the largest of its kind in the world -- had been due to take place next month but organisers said travel restrictions in Asia had made planning too ...
US negotiating to buy one or two seats on Soyuz
Feb 17, 2020 (Sputnik)
"NASA intends to purchase one or two additional Soyuz seats to ensure continuous US presence aboard the International Space Station," NASA Johnson Space Centre ...
Source reveals timeline for US first launch of manned vehicle to ISS after nearly decade-long hiatus
Feb 17, 2020 (Sputnik)
In January, founder of the SpaceX company Elon Musk said that the company's first manned spacecraft Crew Dragon would be launched in the second quarter of this ...
NASA selects four possible missions to study the secrets of the solar system
Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)
NASA's Discovery Program invites scientists and engineers to assemble a team to design exciting planetary science missions that deepen what we know about the so...
NASA expects thousands to apply for astronaut jobs ahead of moon missions
Feb 13, 2020 (UPI)
"I wouldn't be surprised if they have 50,000 applicants now. Going back to the moon is motivating a lot of people," said Michael Staab, a flight systems enginee...
'Pale Blue Dot' Revisited
Feb 13, 2020 (JPL)
The updated image uses modern image-processing software and techniques while respecting the intent of those who planned the image. Like the original, the new co...
KBR wins $400M recompete to provide NASA Intelligent Systems Research
Feb 12, 2020 (SPX)
KBR will provide resources and technical expertise to support the Intelligent Systems Division on scientific research, technologies and applications development...
Northrop postpones Antares rocket launch in Virginia on Sunday
Feb 11, 2020 (UPI)
Northrop launch controllers announced an abort less than three minutes before liftoff was scheduled to occur. A new launch could take place as early as Thursday...
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