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India plans to launch 60 space missions in 5 years

Feb 23, 2016 (XNA)

India is planning to launch at least 12 space missions every year for the next five years, a top official of the state-owned space agency has reportedly said. "...

NASA Space Program Now Requires Russian Language

Feb 23, 2016 (Sputnik)

Russian will become a mandatory subject in NASA's space training program, the US space agency announced on its website on Saturday, adding that all those wishin...

Alpha Centauri: Our First Target for Interstellar Probes

Feb 22, 2016 (SPX)

With the completion of New Horizons' primary mission of Pluto fly-by, should we now set our sights even much higher, ambitiously taking aim at other star system...

Tourists could soon benefit from direct flights to Baikonur Space Center

Feb 22, 2016 (Sputnik)

The Center for Operation of Space Ground-Based Infrastructure of Russian space agency Roscosmos has announced a tender for air carriers interested in conducting...

NASA sees record number of astronaut applications

Feb 20, 2016 (AFP)

NASA has received a record 18,300 resumes from people keen on becoming astronauts, the US space agency said Friday. The number of applications for a spot in NAS...

Virgin Galactic unveils new spaceship 16 months after deadly crash

Feb 20, 2016 (AFP)

Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, on Friday unveiled a new commercial spaceship, more than a year after i...

Engineer Makes Sure Commercial Crew Craft Will Make Smooth Landing

Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)

One of the engineers NASA depends on to assess the landing systems of the next generation of human-rated spacecraft brings 14 years of experience working with p...

Visions of the future unleashed at TED

Feb 16, 2016 (AFP)

Dreams and nightmares that could shape the future took center stage Monday at the TED gathering known for brilliant minds exploring potentially world-changing i...

Flowering Zinnias on set stage for deep-space food crop research

Feb 13, 2016 (SPX)

Zinnia plants from the Veggie ground control experiment at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida were harvested Feb. 11 in the same way that crew member Scott ...

Flowering Zinnias set stage for deep-space food crop research

Feb 13, 2016 (SPX)

Zinnia plants from the Veggie ground control experiment at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida were harvested Feb. 11 in the same way that crew member Scott ...

Practical Advice for Aspiring Space Explorers

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

If you've read past the title, you've probably consumed a lot of books and movies about space. Guess what? Flying in space isn't just for science fiction charac...

Orion Crew Module processing begins for first mission

Feb 11, 2016 (SPX)

The Orion crew module pressure vessel has arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is now secured in an upgraded version of a test stand called the "birdc...

Are private launches changing the rocket equation?

Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)

From the dreams of early humans who envied the flight of birds to the drawings of ornithopters by Leonardo da Vinci to the first successful powered flight by Or...

NASA tests solar sail deployment for asteroid-surveying CubeSat NEA Scout

Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)

Progress continues on the journey to Mars as NASA plans to send astronauts deeper into space than ever before, including to an asteroid and ultimately to the su...

Mars or the Moon

Feb 07, 2016 (Sputnik)

A panel of space experts has revealed that NASA is capable of developing only one major human spaceflight mission at a time, and must make a tough choice betwee...

The Orion Crew Module Pressure Vessel Ready For Testing

Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)

The Orion crew module pressure vessel for NASA's Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) is secured in an upgraded version of a test stand called the birdcage in the high ...

Innovations in the Air

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Sure, Google's driverless car is pretty cool. But according to key leaders in the aerospace industry, much of the world's most innovative work is happening not ...

Astronaut rescue exercise proves Det. 3 command, control ready to support DoD, NASA

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

It's not common an astronaut must be rescued out of rough open waters after descending home to Earth in a crewed capsule but when those Space Race era days of h...

Challenger disaster at 30: Did the tragedy change NASA for the better?

Jan 26, 2016 (UPI)

Since humans first set their sights beyond the upper atmosphere, astronauts have died during space missions or test flights. There have been more space-related ...

Voyager Mission Celebrates 30 Years Since Uranus

Jan 25, 2016 (JPL)

Humanity has visited Uranus only once, and that was 30 years ago. NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft got its closest look at the mysterious, distant, gaseous planet on...