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Ohio State students to test space food solutions for NASA
Jun 09, 2024 (SPX)
NASA's partner for the Deep Space Food Challenge, the Methuselah Foundation, has teamed up with Ohio State University in Columbus to facilitate the challenge's ...
Virgin Galactic completes final spaceflight before two-year pause
Jun 08, 2024 (AFP)
"Galactic07 is back on terra firma, now as astronauts!" the company said on X, formerly Twitter, referring to a team of two pilots and two passengers. "Our pilo...
Artemis III Integrated Test Achieves Major Milestone
Jun 06, 2024 (SPX)
NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX, the developer of Starship, the Human Landing System for Artemis III, performed a coordinated test with development hardware for S...
'Nicely done!' Boeing Starliner astronauts welcomed to ISS at last
Jun 06, 2024 (UPI)
Williams floated into the space station first, joyously greeting the space station crew. Wilmore floated in shortly afterward. The astronauts hugged the ISS cre...
Take three for Boeing Starliner crewed launch attempt
Jun 05, 2024 (AFP)
Liftoff is targeted for 10:52 am (1452 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, for a roughly one-week stay at the orbital laboratory. The l...
Russian cosmonaut logs record 1,000th day in space
Jun 05, 2024 (UPI)
"Today, at 00:00:20 Moscow time, Roscosmos state corporation cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, who currently works at the International Space Station, has booked a reco...
Roscosmos Progress 88 cargo spacecraft docked at the International Space Station
Jun 01, 2024 (UPI)
Progress 88 linked up with the ISS at 7:47 a.m. EDT after traveling about two days from its launch point in Kazakhstan to the ISS. The Progress 88 spacecraft la...
Boeing will try to launch its first crew on Starliner, again
Jun 01, 2024 (AFP)
Following checks by engineering teams, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are "go" for launch atop a United Launch Alliance rocket at 12:25 pm (162...
Russian Progress 88 cargo spacecraft launched to ISS
May 30, 2024 (UPI)
The 5:43 a.m. EDT launch was from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Following a two-day orbit the spacecraft will automatically dock to the space-facing po...
MDA Space Partners with Starlab Space in Commercial Space Station Venture
May 30, 2024 (SPX)
MDA Space, known for its human-rated space robotics and the developer of the Canadarm robotics family, will provide external robotics, robotics interfaces, and ...
Cargo Ship Departs, Two Rockets Near Launch During Busy Day on Station
May 29, 2024 (SPX)
A trash-loaded Progress 86 cargo craft undocked from the space station's Poisk module at 4:39 a.m. EDT on Tuesday. The Roscosmos resupply ship ended its six-mon...
French, Belgian astronauts named next Europeans to fly to ISS
May 22, 2024 (AFP)
Adenot will join the crew onboard the ISS, around 400 kilometres (250 miles) above Earth, in 2026 for a six-month mission, after which she will be replaced by L...
UCF develops algorithms for space and sea exploration
May 21, 2024 (SPX)
The current space domain awareness (SDA) infrastructure, primarily Earth-based, struggles with the vast expanse of cislunar space. "Cislunar space is vast," say...
NASA announces $6BN in contracts for Spacecraft Acquisition Services
May 21, 2024 (SPX)
The contracts are indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity base contracts with a firm-fixed-price structure, totaling $6 billion. These contracts may support oth...
Blue Origin flies thrill seekers to space, including oldest astronaut
May 20, 2024 (AFP)
It was the first crewed launch for the enterprise owned and founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos since a rocket mishap in 2022 left rival Virgin Galactic as...
Office of Space Commerce Extends TraCSS Project
May 20, 2024 (SPX)
Launched in January 2024, the Consolidated Pathfinder is a short-term project focusing on space situational awareness (SSA) for the low Earth orbit (LEO) regime...
New Shepard's NS-25 crewed mission set for May 19 liftoff
May 15, 2024 (SPX)
The mission will also feature the NS-25 mission patch, which includes several symbols: - "The Gemini spacecraft represents Ed Dwight's aerospace training era. T...
Voyager Space to Develop New Airlock Concept for Mars Transit
May 15, 2024 (SPX)
This 12-month study, starting this month, will involve resources from Voyager and MSFC's Habitation team to evaluate the Bishop Airlock design's suitability for...
ISS National Lab offers up to $750,000 for technology development in space
May 15, 2024 (SPX)
Space-based technology development is a strategic priority for the ISS National Lab, offering a chance for accelerated technology maturation that can advance li...
Axiom Space partners with Virgin Galactic for Turkish astronaut's suborbital mission
May 15, 2024 (SPX)
Atasever, a 31-year-old engineer, is set to become the second Turkish astronaut when he participates in the Galactic 07 flight to advance Turkiye's space effort...
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