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Russia, Europe, US Should Work Together on Space Exploration - German Agency
Apr 06, 2017 (Sputnik)
Russia, Europe, the United States and other countries should cooperate on decoding how to proceed with international space exploration in the future, German Aer...
US, Russian Astronauts Prepare for April Crew Swap on Space Station
Apr 06, 2017 (Sputnik)
NASA announced that Astronaut Jack Fischer and Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin are heading to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations to join t...
US astronaut John Glenn is buried with military honors
Apr 06, 2017 (AFP)
US flags worldwide were ordered flown at half-staff on Thursday as astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, was laid to rest with military honor...
Roscosmos hopes to continue cooperation with US
Apr 05, 2017 (Sputnik)
Russia's space corporation Roscosmos is hopeful to keep on cooperating with the United States on engine building under the new US administration, the corporatio...
US, Russia Have Opportunities for Expanding Space Cooperation Despite Tensions
Apr 04, 2017 (Sputnik)
The Executive Director for manned space flight programs at Roscosmos said that Russia and the United States have opportunities to broaden their collaboration in...
United Launch Alliance Completes Crew Emergency Egress System
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
The final test of the Emergency Egress System (EES) was conducted recently, signifying the completion of another United Launch Alliance (ULA) milestone supporti...
Space Traffic Management at Mach 25
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
Those familiar with air traffic management architectures understand the constraints of aircraft flying in the atmosphere, vehicle dynamics and command and contr...
Robot Fedor to Guide Russia's Federation Spacecraft in Maiden Flight - Roscosmos
Apr 03, 2017 (Sputnik)
First flight of the Russian next-generation Federation spacecraft will be unmanned, the space vehicle will be guided by a robot named Fedor, Russia's Roscosmos ...
Mission Control Team Finds Answers During Spacewalk
Apr 03, 2017 (SPX)
240 miles above Earth, traveling 12 times the speed of a bullet, a cloth blanket gets away during a spacewalk and immediately drifts out of reach, into space, a...
The long legacy of space-farming leading us to Mars
Apr 02, 2017 (SPX)
Following a new NASA bill, passed in March by the US Congress and which authorizes $19.5 billion spending for space exploration in 2017, manned missions to Mars...
CRESST Signs $87M Cooperative Agreement with NASA Goddard
Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)
The Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST II), a five-year, $87.5 million cooperative agreement with NASA's Goddard Space ...
Spacewalkers Connect Adapter for Commercial Crew Vehicles
Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA concluded their spacewalk at 2:33 p.m. EDT. During the spacewalk, which lasted...
NASA partnerships open the path from ground to space
Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)
NASA recently marked a decade since it began a new era in commercial spaceflight development for low-Earth orbit transportation. The space agency inked agreemen...
NASA unveils new searchable multimedia library
Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)
NASA officially has launched a new resource to help the public search and download out-of-this-world images, videos and audio files by keyword and metadata sear...
Deep space gateway to open opportunities for distant destinations
Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)
NASA is leading the next steps into deep space near the moon, where astronauts will build and begin testing the systems needed for challenging missions to deep ...
X-Hab working seventh season of academic-aided innovation
Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)
Some of the newest tech that will make living on other worlds possible may come in part from research and imagination of college students working with NASA thro...
Spacewalking French, US astronauts begin upgrade to orbiting lab
Mar 24, 2017 (AFP)
A French and an American astronaut floated outside the International Space Station Friday for a spacewalk to upgrade the orbiting outpost for the arrival of fut...
Spacewalking French, US astronauts to upgrade orbiting lab
Mar 24, 2017 (AFP)
A French and an American astronaut are scheduled to float outside the International Space Station Friday for a spacewalk aimed at upgrading the orbiting outpost...
PSI toolbox for research and exploration project funded for $5.5 million
Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)
The Planetary Science Institute has been awarded $5.5 million by NASA to be a research node of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) ...
NASA's hybrid computer enables Raven's autonomous rendezvous capability
Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)
A hybrid computing system developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is the enabling technology behind an ambitious experiment test...
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