SPACE TRAVEL - INDO DAILY

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

"Fifty years after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon - wearing one of our spacesuits - commercial space travel is poised to open the universe to a generation of...

US makes history with first all-female spacewalk

Oct 18, 2019 (AFP)

"It symbolizes exploration by all that dare to dream and work hard to achieve that dream," Meir said after the 7-hour, 17-minute spacewalk to replace a power co...

Virgin Galactic unveils commercial space suits

Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson on Wednesday introduced the custom suits that will be worn by the first private astronauts. US sportswear designer Under...

NASA's Meir, Koch prepare to make history in first all-female spacewalk

Oct 17, 2019 (UPI)

Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch are scheduled to conduct an extravehicular activity, or EVA, to replace a failed battery charge-discharge unit on the...

Climate crisis spurs action at 'green' Frankfurt book fair

Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)

Here's a look at how the world's biggest publishing event is galvanising readers young and old into environmental action, on and off the page. - 'German Greta' ...

NASA Admin selects Douglas Loverro as next human spaceflight head

Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)

"I worked with Doug for many years on the Hill, and he is a respected strategic leader in both civilian and defense programs, overseeing the development and imp...

Under Armour, Virgin Galactic reveal suits to be worn by space tourists

Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)

The uniforms include a spacesuit, training suit, footwear and a jacket. The suits were created specifically for private astronauts, the companies said, and are ...

Soil on moon and Mars likely to support crops

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

Wieger Wamelink and his colleagues at Wageningen University and Research, cultivated ten different crops: garden cress, rocket, tomato, radish, rye, quinoa, spi...

NASA moves up historic all-female spacewalk

Oct 16, 2019 (UPI)

Plans to remove old batters and install newer, better ones have been delayed. Instead, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch will make history Thursda...

NASA unveils flexible, one-size-fits-all space suits

Oct 15, 2019 (AFP)

Prototypes of the Orion Crew Survival Suit that will be worn on the journey and the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) for the lunar surface were u...

First all-female spacewalk now later this week, says NASA

Oct 15, 2019 (AFP)

Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will venture outside the International Space Station either Thursday or Friday to replace a power controller unit tha...

Emirati astronaut returns home to hero's welcome

Oct 12, 2019 (AFP)

Hazzaa al-Mansoori of the United Arab Emirates was greeted by Abu Dhabi's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan at the capital's airport. Men, wome...

Luca powers up for a spacewalk

Oct 11, 2019 (ESA)

Scheduled for 25 October, he will work with NASA astronaut Jessica Meir to replace nickel hydrogen batteries with newer lithium ion batteries and install batter...

First man to perform spacewalk dies

Oct 11, 2019 (AFP)

The Russian space agency Roscosmos said it was saddened to announce the death of "cosmonaut No 11" who was twice decorated with the country's top honour, the He...

Awe and fear: how Russian cosmonaut recalled first spacewalk

Oct 11, 2019 (AFP)

Fifty years after Alexei Leonov carried out the first spacewalk, he still vividly recalls the moment he emerged from the capsule to become the only human to hav...

Raytheon to help Jet Propulsion Lab explore the universe

Oct 09, 2019 (SPX)

"JPL's pioneering spacecraft and rovers have led to groundbreaking discoveries of our solar system and beyond," said Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon Intell...

Astronauts grow 'space meat' but admit taste 'needs to be improved'

Oct 09, 2019 (Sputnik)

Israeli food startup Aleph Farms announced on 7 October that it had successfully grown meat in space. "In a joint experiment on #InternationalSpaceStation, we s...

NASA iTech Challenge kicks off in Las Cruces, New Mexico

Oct 09, 2019 (SPX)

An initiative by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, iTech aims to find innovative ideas that have the potential to overcome critical technology hurdle...

Humans will not 'migrate' to other planets, Nobel winner says

Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)

Mayor and his colleague Didier Queloz were on Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their research refining techniques to detect so-called exoplanets....

'One small nibble for man': 3D printer makes meat in space

Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)

The bioprinter produced beef, rabbit and fish tissue using magnetic fields in microgravity, a Russian medical technology company involved in the experiment said...