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Zero G Kitchen prepares to launch its first appliance to Space

Nov 19, 2018 (SPX)

The first appliance is an oven designed to freshly prepare small food items, such as rolls, cookies, patties, pockets and other basic foods for longer duration ...

Crew assistant CIMON successfully completes first tasks in space

Nov 19, 2018 (SPX)

Gerst has been living and working on the ISS since 8 June 2018. His current horizons mission, lasting six months, includes conducting a series of tests with CIM...

Orion recovery team: ready to 'rock and roll'

Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)

Departing from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Exploration Ground Systems' team embarked on the USS John P. Murtha, an amphibious U.S. Navy ship, in...

Exploration makes perfect

Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)

This is all part of Pangaea-X, an extension of ESA's Pangaea geology training that puts technology through its paces in scenarios that mimic human and robotic o...

Poor weather delays US space cargo launch to Saturday

Nov 15, 2018 (AFP)

The delay to 4:01 am (0901 GMT) on November 17 from Wallops Island, Virginia marks the second time launch managers have postponed the mission from its initial f...

First supply trip to space since Soyuz failure poised to launch

Nov 14, 2018 (AFP)

At the last moment, NASA added some extra supplies for the three orbiting scientists, just in case. The next Soyuz launch, with three more astronauts on board -...

Canadian voice of Hal in '2001: A Space Odyssey' dies

Nov 12, 2018 (AFP)

According to the Stratford Festival, a repertory theatre festival of which he was a founding member, Rain died in hospital near Toronto of natural causes Sunday...

Cosmonauts to perform spacewalk to examine hole in Soyuz hull on December 11

Nov 12, 2018 (Sputnik)

"The extravehicular activity of the Russian cosmonauts is scheduled for Dec. 11," the agency's spokesman said noting that the specific time and the duration of ...

NASA Chief, Russian Envoy discuss US-Russian space cooperation

Nov 12, 2018 (Sputnik)

"I was pleased to host Russian Federation Ambassador Anatoly Antonov [today] for a courtesy meeting at NASA Headquarters to discuss the important space cooperat...

Computer on Russian segment of ISS rebooted after glitch

Nov 09, 2018 (Sputnik)

"The computer at the ISS was rebooted at 12:04:50 Moscow time [09:04:50 GMT]. Triple-channel configuration has been restored," Russia's State Space Corporation ...

NASA looks to university researchers for innovative space tech solutions

Nov 09, 2018 (SPX)

The universities will work on their proposed research and development projects for up to three years and will receive as much as $500,000 each in Early Stage In...

From Quantum Optics to Increased Risk Posture: Student Innovations at NASA

Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)

As the U.S. prepares for human travel to the Moon and beyond and NASA missions venture farther into the universe than ever before, the Space Communications and ...

Russia's Roscosmos confirms computer glitch on board ISS

Nov 07, 2018 (Sputnik)

Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos confirmed on Tuesday that one of the three computers on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) ...

'Dust up' on International Space Station hints at sources of structure

Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)

The dust the scientists are studying is made up of tiny spheres 10 times smaller than the width of a human hair. This dust becomes electrically charged when it ...

Experience high-res science in first 8K footage from space

Nov 05, 2018 (SPX)

The same engineers who sent high-definition (HD) cameras, 3D cameras, and a camera capable of recording 4K footage to the space station now have delivered a new...

Roscosmos, NASA to adjust ISS program to fit with lunar missions

Nov 05, 2018 (Sputnik)

"My American colleague Jim Bridenstine and I have agreed that we will go over all the experiments on the ISS together, and will reassign them to the same logic ...

Russia plans first manned launch to ISS Dec 3 after accident

Oct 31, 2018 (AFP)

Russia, the only country able to ferry astronauts to the orbiting science lab, suspended all launches after a Soyuz rocket failed on October 11 just minutes aft...

Thrusters with additively manufactured components qualified to fly humans on Orion spacecraft

Oct 30, 2018 (SPX)

The reaction control system, or RCS, is the only means of guiding the Orion crew module after it separates from its service module in preparation for atmospheri...

US-Russia space cooperation to go on despite Soyuz launch mishap

Oct 19, 2018 (Sputnik)

Sputnik: What can you say about the US-Russia cooperation against the background of recent Soyuz launch failure and tensions between the nations in general? Ste...

Installing life support the hands-free way

Oct 19, 2018 (ESA)

Installing the life support rack in NASA's Destiny laboratory is no easy task as the facility is larger than a human being and weighs over 650 kg on Earth. In a...