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Commercial Crew Partners Focus on Testing, Analysis to Advance Designs

Jul 01, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's aerospace industry partners are taking their designs and operational plans for the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) through a series of comprehensi...

Astronaut health check with single drop of blood

Jul 01, 2014 (ESA)

ESA is building a prototype tester for crews on the International Space Station to provide diagnoses within a few minutes from a pinprick of blood. The ultimate...

Italian businessman counter bids for Club Med

Jul 01, 2014 (AFP)

Italian businessman Andrea Bonomi has launched a counter offer for French holiday-resort operator Club Med, outbidding terms proposed by Chinese company Fosun a...

Orion Parachute Test Hits No Snags

Jun 26, 2014 (SPX)

NASA completed the most complex and flight-like test of the parachute system for the agency's Orion spacecraft on Wednesday. A test version of Orion touched dow...

NASA has a Problem with Unauthorized Access to it's Technologies

Jun 25, 2014 (SPX)

A few days ago the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its findings related to unauthorized access to NASA's technologies by foreign entities. ...

Moon to see first tourists by 2017, single roundtrip ticket costs $150 mln

Jun 24, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

The moon will welcome its first tourists as early as 2017, Space Adventures, a US-based space tourism company, said Wednesday. According to Space Adventures' he...

Elon Musk plans to take people to Mars within 10 years

Jun 24, 2014 (RIA Novosti)

Entrepreneur and inventor Elon Musk has some travel suggestions that are out of this world. The SpaceX CEO known as the brains behind the Tesla electric car say...

NASA Turns Down the Volume on Rocket Noise

Jun 20, 2014 (SPX)

NASA engineers recently went on an auricle ride as a scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS), including solid rocket motors, was fired -- giving an "earful...

Five Things We'll Learn from Orion's First Flight Test

Jun 19, 2014 (SPX)

All the superlatives associated with Orion's first mission this year - farthest a spacecraft for humans has gone in 40 years, largest heat shield, safest vehicl...

Duo Tries on Spacesuits While Advanced Microgravity Science Continues

Jun 19, 2014 (SPX)

The six-member Expedition 40 crew is counting down to a Thursday morning spacewalk. Meanwhile, the orbital residents are conducting an array of international sc...

Coffee for cosmonauts! First 'ISSpresso' machine to arrive in space

Jun 17, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

The International Space Station is set to welcome the first coffee machine in space in November. Until now, sleepy astronauts have been surviving only on dry po...

Complexity of Sample Return Robot Competition Challenges 17 Teams

Jun 16, 2014 (SPX)

NASA awarded $5,000 to the Mountaineers, first-time competitors from the University of West Virginia, Morgantown. Students on the team successfully completed Le...

Wealthy Chinese buy space flight tickets: report

Jun 13, 2014 (AFP)

More than 300 Chinese space enthusiasts have booked tickets costing nearly $100,000 for a five minute trip to outer space, official media reported Friday. The 3...

Maggie Aderin-Pocock goes boldly into space exploration

Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)

Space travel could become widely affordable within the next 30 to 50 years and astronauts could one day live on Mars, scientist and The Sky at Night presenter M...

NASA Selects Five Projects for 2015 X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge

Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)

NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation have selected five universities to design systems, concepts and technologies to enhance capabilities for deep space...

Underwater return for Andreas and Thomas

Jun 12, 2014 (ESA)

ESA astronauts Andreas Mogensen and Thomas Pesquet spent five days last year as part of NASA's underwater project to test technologies that could be used in fut...

Sierra Nevada Corporation Expands Dream Chaser Dream Team

Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)

Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems announces that Siemens PLM Software is expanding its current relationship with SNC by officially joining the SNC...

NASA Announces Two Upcoming Undersea Missions

Jun 11, 2014 (SPX)

NASA is returning to the bottom of the ocean. Twice this summer, aquanauts participating in the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) will conduct...

Orion Crew And Service Modules Stacked

Jun 11, 2014 (SPX)

Following the completion of the heat shield installation, Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has stacked the Orion crew module atop of the service module. The stacking...

Towards manned orbital mission: Iran to build its own spacecraft

Jun 10, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

Iran has announced that it is planning to build its own orbital spaceship, the Fars news agency reports citing the head of the Iranian national space project, M...