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No nausea for Beth Moses, Virgin's space tourist trainer
Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)
The Virgin employee, who will now train the company's future space tourists, made the vertical ascent propelled by a rocket at three times the speed of sound. "...
NASA's OCO-3 Measures How Plants Grow and Glow
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
That's important because, as Earth's climate changes, growing seasons worldwide are also changing in both timing and length. These changes may affect world food...
NASA selects two new space tech research institutes for smart habitats
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
The selected proposals create two multi-disciplinary, university-led research institutes to develop technologies critical to a sustainable human presence on the...
Grapes on Mars? Georgia winemakers aiming high
Apr 09, 2019 (AFP)
Nestling between the Great Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, Georgia has a mild climate that is perfect for vineyards and has developed a thriving wine tour...
Three prototypes in space settlement challenge receive UAE support
Apr 08, 2019 (SPX)
The initiative, sponsored by the Dubai Future Foundation, has completed 35 scientific studies as part of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Settlement Challenge, in ...
A decade-long quest to build an ecosystem in a room
Apr 08, 2019 (ESA)
As astronauts explore farther into our Solar System, there will be a need to reduce the reliance on supplies brought from Earth. ESA is working with partners to...
Counting the Many Ways the International Space Station Benefits Humanity
Apr 08, 2019 (SPX)
The station has maintained a continuous human presence in space since Nov. 2, 2000, and is the only laboratory that allows scientists to manipulate every variab...
Spinoff Book Highlights NASA Technology Everywhere
Apr 08, 2019 (JPL)
"NASA works hard, not only to develop technology that pushes the boundaries of aeronautics and space exploration, but also to put those innovations into the han...
Music for space
Apr 08, 2019 (ESA)
Music can help release a cocktail of hormones that have a positive effect on us: oxytocin, endorphin, serotonin and dopamine. Besides the pleasure we get from i...
NASA highlights science on next Cygnus mission to ISS
Apr 08, 2019 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman is targeting Wednesday, April 17, for the launch of its Cygnus spacecraft on an Antares rocket from pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in...
Bacterial factories could make high-performance proteins for space missions
Apr 08, 2019 (SPX)
But unlike steel, the natural fiber cannot be mass-produced. Today, scientists report a new method that takes advantage of engineered bacteria to produce spider...
More Delays Ahead for Boeing's New Space Capsule for Astronauts
Apr 05, 2019 (VOA)
NASA announced the revised lineup Wednesday. At the same time, officials said the first Starliner crew will remain at the International Space Station longer tha...
Progress MS-11 reaches ISS in record time
Apr 05, 2019 (SPX)
The resupply mission was carried out on a two-orbit, super fast-track rendezvous profile with the orbital outpost. Usually, the Russian space freighters use a s...
Russia launches cargo ship with food, supplies for ISS
Apr 04, 2019 (UPI)
The Russian Progress 72 cargo spacecraft launched at 7:01 a.m. ET, 4:01 p.m. Baikonur time. Just more than three hours later, at 10:21 a.m. ET, four minutes ahe...
Boeing delays capsule's first space test flight
Apr 03, 2019 (AFP)
The US space agency NASA blamed the delay on "limited launch opportunities" in April and May from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It noted that the August launch targe...
It takes a team
Apr 01, 2019 (ESA)
This week ESA is highlighting the role of the European teams that make a space mission possible - from preparations to launch, from continuous research to testi...
NASA Astronauts Complete 215th Spacewalk at Station
Mar 30, 2019 (SPX)
The astronauts also did work to enable robotic specialists to remove one of the three new lithium ion batteries connected during last Friday's spacewalk that is...
US Asked Russia to Delay Soyuz MS-13 July Launch to ISS for Two Weeks - Source
Mar 30, 2019 (Sputnik)
"The American side asked the Russian side to postpone the launch of the Soyuz MS-13 for two weeks - from 6 to 20 July, as well as to extend its flight for two m...
Final frontier: Russia develops washing machine for space
Mar 29, 2019 (AFP)
The RKK Energiya space corporation that builds spacecraft dropped a brief mention of the innovation in a video posted on YouTube. "By the way, for future lunar ...
The Voyage to Interstellar Space
Mar 28, 2019 (SPX)
But when they launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 had a different mission: to explore the outer solar system and gather observations directly at the sourc...
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