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US spacecraft's solar sail successfully deploys

Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)

LightSail 2, as the spacecraft is called, will harness the momentum of packets of light energy known as photons. Its developer, the Planetary Society, a US orga...

Former NASA flight director Chris Kraft dies at 95

Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)

The 95-year-old joined NASA in 1958 and developed the planning and control processes needed for crewed space missions, creating the agency's Mission Control ope...

Aiming higher: Airmen contribute to human spaceflight from Apollo to tomorrow

Jul 22, 2019 (AFNS)

While all of those are perfectly logical and correct answers, there's one response that's equally as valid, though not often given: U.S. Air Force or Airmen. Fr...

French inventor to hover across English Channel on 'flyboard'

Jul 22, 2019 (AFP)

Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata has pledged to go ahead on Thursday on his device, which can reach speeds up to 190 kilometres an hour (118 mph). It wi...

LightSail 2 prepares to deploy sails, share new images of Earth

Jul 22, 2019 (UPI)

The Planetary Society will offer live streaming coverage of the milestone, broadcasting mission control at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in California. Last week, mi...

NASA seeks ideas from US firms on future lunar lander

Jul 22, 2019 (AFP)

NASA called the request for input a "major step" forward for its new Moon mission, dubbed Artemis -- who in Greek mythology was Apollo's twin sister. The space ...

American, Italian, Russian blast off for ISS

Jul 20, 2019 (AFP)

Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, NASA's Andrew Morgan and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency set off on a six-hour journey to...

Space crew to blast off for ISS on moon landing anniversary

Jul 20, 2019 (AFP)

Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, NASA's Andrew Morgan and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency will travel to the International...

The exploration of space in 10 key dates

Jul 20, 2019 (AFP)

- 1957: Sputnik - On October 4, 1957, Moscow launches the first artificial space satellite, Sputnik 1, ushering in the Cold War tussle for the cosmos. The beach...

Trump pits Apollo 11 astronauts against NASA chief

Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)

It is a theme he had touched upon earlier this month in a tweet, and this time drew on the support of the two former astronauts, who are taking part in celebrat...

To return to the Moon, astronauts need new spacesuits

Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)

If NASA wants to meet its own deadline of returning to the Moon by 2024, it needs to get a move on. "NASA still doesn't have a suit because the decision was tak...

Russia May Send Saudi Astronaut to Space - Intergovernmental Commission

Jul 17, 2019 (Sputnik)

"The countries have expressed readiness to continue consultations on the prospects and mutually beneficial areas of bilateral space activities ... a manned spac...

US to Launch Its First Own Spacecraft to ISS After NASA Certification in May 2020 - Source

Jul 17, 2019 (Sputnik)

NASA has paid Russia for seats on the Soyuz spacecraft since the US Space Shuttle was retired in 2011. In 2014, NASA gave contracts to Boeing and Space X, worth...

Lithuania introduces e-residency to boost foreign investment

Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)

The legislation will enable foreigners to set up companies in the EU and eurozone country of 2.8 million people starting in 2021, and run them remotely with the...

Major shuffle at NASA in rush to meet Trump's moon deadline

Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)

The project -- named Artemis -- would be the first attempt to return humans to the lunar surface since the last Apollo landing in 1972, but some experts doubt i...

Keeping NASA's Oldest Explorers Going

Jul 09, 2019 (JPL)

One key issue is that both Voyagers, launched in 1977, have less and less power available over time to run their science instruments and the heaters that keep t...

Virgin Galactic seeks space tourism boost with market launch

Jul 09, 2019 (AFP)

"By embarking on this new chapter, at this advanced point in Virgin Galactic's development, we can open space to more investors and in doing so, open space to t...

Branson's Virgin Galactic to go public: report

Jul 09, 2019 (AFP)

"By embarking on this new chapter, at this advanced point in Virgin Galactic's development, we can open space to more investors and in doing so, open space to t...

Russian Federatsiya spacecraft crew could be killed in case of water landing

Jul 08, 2019 (Sputnik)

"There is now a huge problem in case of an emergency situation while launching the manned Federatsiya spacecraft from the Vostochny cosmodrome. We will enter th...

LightSail 2 phones home to mission control

Jul 03, 2019 (SPX)

Following deployment from its spring-loaded enclosure known as a P-POD, LightSail 2 deployed its radio antenna and began transmitting health and status data, as...