SPACE TRAVEL - NANO DAILY

Testing Spacesuits in Antarctica, part 1

Apr 16, 2013 (SPX)

Once you've been to Antarctica, you just really want to go back. There is a sign in the lunch room here at Marambio base, that says (with poetic license thanks ...

Astronauts to grow lettuce on International Space Station

Apr 15, 2013 (UPI)

NASA's Vegetable Production System, called VEGGIE for short, is among the 500 pounds of supplies to be delivered to the International Space Station by SpaceX's ...

Obama's budget would boost science, health

Apr 10, 2013 (AFP)

The budget proposal that US President Barack Obama released Wednesday would boost funds for major science and health programs while making cuts at NASA and the ...

Underwater for outer space

Apr 10, 2013 (ESA)

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet waves as he descends to a mockup of the International Space Station at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, USA. Training...

NASA Celebrates Four Decades of Plucky Pioneer 11

Apr 09, 2013 (SPX)

Forty years ago, on April 5, 1973, a small, ambitious spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, heading towards the third-brightest point of light in the night s...

Boeing Completes Preliminary Design Review for Connection Between CST-100 Spacecraft and Rocket

Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)

The structure that will join the Boeing [NYSE: BA] Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft to an Atlas V rocket has successfully completed a preliminary ...

NASA Invests in Small Business Innovative Research and Technology Proposals to Enable Future Missions

Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)

NASA has selected 295 research and technology proposals from 216 American small businesses for negotiations that may lead to contract awards worth a combined $3...

India doing excellent in space programmes: Sunita Williams

Apr 03, 2013 (IANS)

Lauding Indian space agency ISRO, US astronaut Sunita Williams Monday said it was doing an excellent job and wished that more Indian American women follow her a...

The Future of Exploration Starts With 3-D Printing

Mar 26, 2013 (SPX)

The latest in cutting-edge manufacturing is already making a significant impact in the future of space exploration. Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne of Canoga Park,...

Miners shoot for the stars in tech race

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

A self-sustaining mechanised colony that mines and exports resources from the Moon could be a reality within a generation, helping to meet demand for materials ...

Space Innovation Center Will Help Govt Agencies Launch Future Space Missions

Mar 26, 2013 (SPX)

The EDGE Innovation Network has announced that the new EDGE Space Innovation Center is officially open following a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, March 22. ...

U.S. Astronomers Call on Congress to Support R and D Investments

Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)

Fifteen members of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) traveled to Washington, DC to express the need for sustained and predictable federal funding of resea...

Lockheed Martin to Continue Providing Life Sciences Support To NASA

Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)

As part of the Wyle-led team, Lockheed Martin has been selected by NASA's Johnson Space Center to provide biomedical, medical and health services in support of ...

Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

Thirty-five years after its launch, Voyager 1 appears to have travelled beyond the influence of the Sun and exited the heliosphere, according to a new study app...

NASA denies report that Voyager left solar system

Mar 20, 2013 (AFP)

The US space agency on Wednesday denied a claim made in a scientific study that its Voyager 1 spacecraft had left the solar system, describing the report as "pr...

NASA Voyager Status Update on Voyager 1 Location

Mar 20, 2013 (JPL)

"The Voyager team is aware of reports [today] that NASA's Voyager 1 has left the solar system," said Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the Califo...

Reproduction In Zero Gravity

Mar 19, 2013 (SPX)

University of Montreal researchers found that changes in gravity affect the reproductive process in plants. Gravity modulates traffic on the intracellular "high...

Sara Brightman's Space Trip Under Question

Mar 19, 2013 (RIA Novosti)

Russia's space agency Roscosmos and NASA may opt against sending music star Sarah Brightman to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015, Russian agency's h...

Michoud Building LNG Tanks For Lockheed Martin

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the agency's only large-scale advanced manufacturing facility, soon will be building liquefied natural gas (LNG...

Jack Kinzler, savior of Skylab, dies at 94

Mar 15, 2013 (UPI)

Jack Kinzler, former chief of the Technical Services Center at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, died at the age of 94, officials said. Kinzler,...