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NASA exploring inflatable spacecraft designs for future Mars missions
Jan 05, 2015 (UPI)
Slinging a fast-moving probe into orbit around a faraway planet is hard enough; landing a hefty, astronaut-carrying spacecraft on an alien surface is beyond dif...
Club Med, far from its founding tents, turns to luxury-seeking tourists
Jan 05, 2015 (AFP)
French holiday resort group Club Med plans to pursue its strategy of attracting upmarket clients with its new investor Chinese conglomerate Fosun, turning furth...
'Connected life' at the heart of CES electronics show
Jan 02, 2015 (AFP)
In the air, in your car, on your back -- new technology at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show is showcasing the growing number of ways to live the "connecte...
Commercial suborbital research program to qualify scientist-astronauts
Jan 02, 2015 (SPX)
Project PoSSUM, a non-profit suborbital research program, announces the first PoSSUM scientist-astronaut class to be held at the Embry Riddle Aeronautical Unive...
Germany Wraps Up a Successful Year in Spaceflight
Jan 02, 2015 (SPX)
2014 was a very successful and eventful year for the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Germany was active in the field of human spaceflight as the country's astron...
The NACA's Space Legacy
Jan 02, 2015 (SPX)
Engineers from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), who joined NASA after its creation, tested, developed, and recommended one of the most vi...
Revisiting a 2009 Space Exploration Architecture Proposal
Dec 30, 2014 (SPX)
Several recent articles in space publications have called into question NASA's ability to assemble a reasonable space exploration program plan. In summary, NASA...
NASA Glenn Research Center Completes Stirling Generator
Dec 29, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center recently assembled an engineering model Stirling power system using valuable assets that became available after the ...
Challenges for Orion and SLS
Dec 26, 2014 (SPX)
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of Congress, which exists to support Congress in meeting its constitu...
FFD signs Space Act Agreement with NASA for Space Suit Development
Dec 26, 2014 (SPX)
Final Frontier Design (FFD) is proud to announce the signing of a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA to collaborate on the development, design review, and test...
ISRO to study data in crew module's 'black box'
Dec 26, 2014 (IANS)
Indian space scientists will study the data recorded by around 200 sensors in the dummy crew module that reached the Kamarajar Port near here Sunday, said a sen...
NASA Commercial Crew Partners Complete 23 Milestones in 2014
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Commercial Crew Program and the agency's industry partners completed 23 agreement and contract milestones in 2014 and participated in thousands of hours ...
SpaceX Completes First Milestone for Commercial Crew System
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
NASA has approved the completion of SpaceX's first milestone in the company's path toward launching crews to the International Space Station (ISS) from U.S. soi...
NASA Selects Commercial Space Partners for Collaborative Partnerships
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
NASA announced Tuesday the selection of four U.S. companies to collaborate with NASA through unfunded partnerships to develop new space capabilities available t...
Does the peer review process stifle scientific innovation?
Dec 23, 2014 (UPI)
Peer review is the quality control process designed to ensure scientific journals publish only the most sound research. Each review board is tasked with protect...
NASA releases video of Orion spacecraft re-entry from astronaut's perspective
Dec 20, 2014 (UPI)
NASA has released a new video of their Orion spacecraft's re-entry from 3,600 miles above Earth. The spacecraft is designed to carry as many as four astronauts,...
XCOR Announces Further Progress on XCOR Lynx Spacecraft
Dec 19, 2014 (SPX)
The XCOR Lynx suborbital spacecraft continues to make rapid progress towards final assembly. Immediately after bonding the cockpit to the fuselage, the shop cre...
Russia, US to Cooperate on Orion Spacecraft Modernization
Dec 17, 2014 (Sputnik)
Russian Rocket and Space Corporation 'Energia' (Russian for Energy) and the US corporations Lockheed Martin and Boeing will jointly work on modernizing the US M...
China drives growth in patent applications worldwide
Dec 16, 2014 (AFP)
China made one third of the world's patent applications last year, once again driving strong global growth despite stalling innovation in Europe and Japan, the ...
NASA Voyager: 'Tsunami Wave' Still Flies Through Interstellar Space
Dec 16, 2014 (JPL)
The "tsunami wave" that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft began experiencing earlier this year is still propagating outward, according to new results. It is the longe...
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