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Former football player revamps NASA air filter invention
Feb 16, 2023 (SPX)
On spacecraft, air filter systems must be cleaned constantly. To get the job done easier, NASA invented a technology called the Multi-Stage Filtration System, d...
Machine learning techniques identify thousands of new cosmic objects
Feb 16, 2023 (SPX)
Astronomy is entering a new era, as a huge amount of astronomical data from millions of cosmic objects are becoming freely available. This is a result of large ...
Roscosmos is delaying the launch of the replacement Soyuz for crew return
Feb 15, 2023 (SPX)
MS-23 will serve as a rescue spacecraft that will bring Cosmonauts Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio back to Earth from the Internationa...
Spacecraft controllers aim for the heights
Feb 14, 2023 (XNA)
However, the information in front of Hu's team comes from Earth's orbit or even planets hundreds of millions of kilometers away. From the first day of its exist...
NASA, partners clear Axiom's second private astronaut mission crew
Feb 14, 2023 (SPX)
Axiom Space's Director of Human Spaceflight and former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson will command the privately funded mission. John Shoffner of Knoxville, Tenne...
NASA launches new Framework for Procurement Ideas, Solutions
Feb 13, 2023 (SPX)
"This new framework is an exciting step forward as NASA streamlines its procurement activities, and we're looking for responses from our workforce, as well as i...
Saudi Arabia to send its first woman into space
Feb 13, 2023 (AFP)
Rayyana Barnawi will join fellow Saudi Ali Al-Qarni on a 10-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said. Ba...
Russia postpones launch of rescue ship to space station
Feb 13, 2023 (AFP)
The mission's postponement until March came after the Russian space agency reported a new problem at the weekend, saying a supply ship docked at the Internation...
Bringing more power to Space Station
Feb 09, 2023 (SPX)
A rocket packed with about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies, is ready to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and resupply the crew. The ISS ...
NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel releases 2022 Annual Report
Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)
The report highlights 2022 activities and observations on NASA's: + Strategic Vision and Guiding Principles + Agency Governance + Program Management Throughout ...
Design a spacesuit for ESA
Feb 03, 2023 (ESA)
In the coming decades, ESA is planning not only to go to the Moon and Mars, but possibly beyond. When we land on the surface of other planets, it is important f...
Setting sail for safer space
Feb 03, 2023 (ESA)
The Drag Augmentation Deorbiting System Nano (ADEO-N) - a 3.6-sq-m aluminium-coated polyamide membrane attached to four metallic booms - deployed from a 10 cm b...
UAE 'Sultan of Space' grapples with Ramadan fast on ISS
Feb 02, 2023 (AFP)
AlNeyadi, 41, dubbed the "Sultan of Space" by his alma mater, will blast off on February 26 for the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 r...
NASA names first person of Hispanic heritage as chief astronaut
Feb 02, 2023 (UPI)
Acaba is the first person of Hispanic heritage to be named chief astronaut, NASA said. As we build on the International Space Station's unparalleled success in ...
NASA announces finalists in challenge to design future astronaut food
Feb 01, 2023 (SPX)
A first-of-its-kind coordinated effort between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the Deep Space Food Challenge aims to kickstart future food systems for...
NASA Spinoffs bolster climate resilience, improve medical care, more
Feb 01, 2023 (SPX)
The latest edition of NASA's Spinoff publication features dozens of new commercialized technologies that use the agency's technology, research, and/or expertise...
NASA selects nine technologies for commercial flight tests
Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)
Selected as part of the NASA's 2022 TechFlights solicitation, these technologies will fly aboard commercial suborbital vehicles such as high-altitude balloons, ...
UAE astronaut says not required to fast during Ramadan on ISS
Jan 26, 2023 (AFP)
The 41-year-old will become the first Arab astronaut to spend six months in space when he blasts off for the International Space Station (ISS) next month aboard...
20 Years Ago: Remembering Columbia and Her Crew
Jan 26, 2023 (SPX)
NASA first announced the STS-107 microgravity research mission, assigned to space shuttle Columbia, in March 1998, with a then-planned launch in May 2000, a dat...
Astronauts conduct first ISS spacewalk of 2023
Jan 20, 2023 (UPI)
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann teamed up with Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for the morning spacewalk, which NASA officials said lasted se...
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