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Space Race Competition helps turn NASA Tech into new products

Mar 14, 2016 (SPX)

When NASA's Technology Transfer Program launched Startup NASA, the chief goal was to help new companies hold on to their cash. "The majority of NASA licenses ar...

Astronaut Scott Kelly to retire in April

Mar 12, 2016 (AFP)

Astronaut Scott Kelly will retire from NASA next month, after spending nearly a year in space and setting a record for the most cumulative days in space of any ...

Greece tourism insists on sunny outlook amid refugee crisis

Mar 11, 2016 (AFP)

Greece, long loved by tourists for its white-washed chapels, sun-kissed islands and turquoise Mediterranean seas, is trying to shake its new image as Europe's f...

Planetary Science Institute funded for expanded education public outreach effort

Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)

PSI will receive $2.6 million as a team member on a five-year, NASA-funded effort to invite the world to join in exploring our universe by enabling everyday peo...

NASA tests inflatable heat shield technology for deep space missions

Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)

Before NASA uses its new inflatable technology for slowing spacecraft that are entering the atmospheres of other planets, it will first need to be packed into t...

Commercial Crew: Building in Safety from the Ground Up in a Unique Way

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

NASA's Commercial Crew Program is set to return human spaceflight launches to the International Space Station from U.S. soil. We share accountability with our c...

Russian company set to usher in era of suborbital tourism

Mar 08, 2016 (Sputnik)

A Russian privately owned company called CosmoCourse declared its intent to create a reusable suborbital tourist spacecraft. According to CosmoCourse's CEO Pave...

First tomatoes, peas harvested from mock Martian farm

Mar 08, 2016 (UPI)

Round two of the Martian farming experiment at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands has proven more successful than the last. This week,...

Less connectivity improves innovation

Mar 07, 2016 (SPX)

Many technologies used in human societies are beyond the inventive capacities of individuals. Instead, technologies result from a cumulative process where innov...

Space shouldn't be exclusive domain of big nations: astronauts

Mar 07, 2016 (AFP)

Space shouldn't be the privileged domain of big countries but a frontier open to all, astronauts and scientists gathered in Costa Rica said Monday. Even the sma...

Sore, but no taller, astronaut Scott Kelly adjusts to Earth

Mar 05, 2016 (AFP)

US astronaut Scott Kelly said Friday he is battling fatigue and super-sensitive skin, but is back to his normal height after nearly a year in space. Kelly's 340...

Test Dummies to Help Assess Crew Safety in Orion

Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)

Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, are preparing for a series of water-impact tests to evaluate the Orion spacecraft and crew saf...

Orion launch abort motor case passes structural qualification test

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

Orbital ATK has conducted a structural qualification test January 26 on its abort motor case that is being manufactured for use on NASA's Orion spacecraft. Orbi...

NASA Goddard network maintains communications from space to ground

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

Spending nearly a year in space, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, m...

Orion Solar Array Wing Deployment Test is a Success

Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of engineers deployed an Orion solar array wing inside the Space Power Facility (SPF) at NASA Glenn's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio...

Launch America: Suni Williams on Commercial Crew

Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)

Suni Williams is one of four astronauts selected to train closely with Boeing and SpaceX as they develop a new generation of human-rated space systems in partne...

Former Marine astronaut leading flight plans for NASA's mission

Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)

Though a great and many challenges tried his determination, Charles "Charlie" Bolden, the 12th and current Administrator of NASA, rose among the few and proud t...

Tools and Talent at Michoud to Complete SLS Core Stage Welding in 2016

Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)

This will be a pinnacle year for NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, as all welding for the structural backbone of NASA's new rocket, the Space Lau...

Orion Test Hardware in Position for Solar Array Test

Feb 25, 2016 (SPX)

Engineers and technicians at NASA Glenn's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, are preparing for the first major test in the campaign to verify the structural ...

Orion Simulations Help Engineers Evaluate Mission Operations for Crew

Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)

When the first astronauts travel to deep space in Orion, they'll know their mission is solidly built on years of hard work by engineers on the ground. While man...