SPACE TRAVEL - NANO DAILY

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

On Earth, liquid flows downhill thanks to gravity. Creating an effective liquid fuel tank involves little more than putting a hole at the bottom of a container....

India has capability to develop space station, says top official

Mar 03, 2017 (XNA)

India has the capability to develop a space station, a top official of the state-owned space agency has said. "We have all the capabilities to set up a space st...

Orion spacecraft achieves key safety milestone

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc., recently completed hot-fire acceptance testing of eight auxiliary engines that will be us...

Marshall shakes, packs, ships and tracks NASA payloads

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

For many of us spring cleaning is an annual ritual and it will be here before we know it. Imagine trying to keep everything organized year-round in a five-bedro...

The NASA Imager Dentists Use Daily

Feb 28, 2017 (JPL)

When sitting in the dentist's chair, few patients think of NASA. But the space agency is there nonetheless, in the sensor that enables high-resolution, digital ...

NASA and SpaceX gives ASU a competitive edge in technological innovation

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

To innovation and beyond, ASU's collaboration with NASA and SpaceX inspires students to reach for the stars. In early January, NASA announced that ASU will lead...

Guardsmen to test space capsule recovery systems

Feb 27, 2017 (SPX)

Forty-five members of the New York Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing are heading to Hawaii, Feb. 27, to participate in a joint NASA and Defense Department ...

How bright is the future of space food

Feb 27, 2017 (SPX)

Research at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa could play a major role in NASA's goal to travel to Mars in the 2030s, including what the astronauts could eat du...

Russian cargo ship docks with space station

Feb 24, 2017 (AFP)

A Russian cargo ship carrying food and equipment for astronuats docked successfully with the International Space Station on Friday after a similar craft crashed...

NASA saves energy and water with new modular supercomputing facility

Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)

Though there's been some recent relief in California's long-standing drought, water conservation techniques continue to be a hot topic for facilities that requi...

Russia launches Progress MS-05 cargo mission to ISS

Feb 22, 2017 (Sputnik)

The Progress MS-05 space freighter has separated from a Soyuz-U carrier rocket, a spokesperson of Russia's Mission Control Center told Sputnik on Wednesday. Rus...

NASA selects proposals for first-ever Space Technology Research Institutes

Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)

NASA has selected proposals for the creation of two multi-disciplinary, university-led research institutes that will focus on the development of technologies cr...

Study: People don't want their future revealed

Feb 22, 2017 (UPI)

Surveys show most people, if given the chance to know their future, would decline to find out what lies ahead. People were especially adamant about remaining ig...

Russia to carry out tourist flights around Moon by 2022

Feb 22, 2017 (Sputnik)

Russia's Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia hopes to be the first to offer space tourism around the Moon aboard the Soyuz spacecraft by 2021-2022. Fir...

Reaching for the Stars: An Interview with former NASA Astronaut Mike Fossum

Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)

Mike Fossum is a shining example for astronaut wannabes shooting for the stars. His story undeniably proves that dreams of space voyages come true if you have t...

Cabbage Patch: 5th crop harvested aboard Space Station

Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)

After spending nearly a month tending to the International Space Station's first crop of Chinese cabbage, astronaut Peggy Whitson harvested the leafy greens on ...

Mystery surrounds return of Pentagon's secretive X-37B spaceplane

Feb 21, 2017 (Sputnik)

After nearly two years in space, one of the US Air Force's biggest mysteries may be returning to Earth. The Air Force has denied that rumors that its X-37B spac...

NASA selects new technologies for flight tests for future space exploration

Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)

NASA has selected five space technologies to test on low-gravity-simulating aircraft, high-altitude balloons or suborbital rockets. The opportunity to fly on th...

Next SpaceX mission will deliver slew of experiment payloads to ISS

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

NASA's first cargo resupply mission of 2017 is poised to lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida loaded with almost 5,500 pounds of science experiments, r...

Art and space enter a new dimension

Feb 17, 2017 (ESA)

ESA's involvement in the world of art is entering a new dimension, thanks to the cooperation with the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, with the idea of m...