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NASA seeks student tech ideas for suborbital launch
Aug 19, 2021 (SPX)
The NASA TechRise Student Challenge invites students to design, build, and launch experiments on suborbital rockets and high-altitude balloons. The challenge ai...
NASA says Russian media allegations US astronaut drilled hole in ISS 'not credible'
Aug 16, 2021 (Sputnik)
Russia's TASS recently published a story, citing an unnamed source in the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, that claimed Aunon-Chancellor had an emotional breakdo...
NASA, Boeing to Move Starliner to Production Facility for Propulsion System Evaluation
Aug 15, 2021 (SPX)
Engineering teams have been working to restore functionality to several valves in the Starliner propulsion system from inside United Launch Alliance's Vertical ...
NASA mulls how to dispose of International Space Station
Aug 12, 2021 (UPI)
A NASA safety panel approved a plan in 2019 that relies on Russia to modify and launch a Progress spacecraft to guide the structure into the atmosphere, where m...
Northrop Grumman set to launch 16th cargo delivery mission to ISS
Aug 10, 2021 (SPX)
Antares is set to launch Aug. 10 at 5:56 p.m. EDT from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Cygnus is scheduled...
Virgin Galactic restarting space tickets from $450,000
Aug 05, 2021 (AFP)
The new price is about double the $200,000 to $250,000 paid by around 600 people who previously booked seats on Virgin's spaceship between 2005 and 2014, as the...
Boeing Starliner launch delayed indefinitely
Aug 04, 2021 (AFP)
The aerospace giant said in a statement that valves in Starliner's engine were in "unexpected" positions, forcing the mission team to halt the countdown. NASA a...
3 in Blue Origin crew set new world records aboard New Shepard spaceflight
Aug 04, 2021 (UPI)
Blue Origin's New Shepard N-22 mission lifted off Thursday morning from Launch Site One in West Texas carrying six passengers on the space-tourism flight. Onboa...
Nauka Module incident caused by software failure
Aug 03, 2021 (Sputnik)
"The mechanic aspect of the docking was reliable, without any remarks registered. This resulted in the closure of both docking mechanisms: the station and the m...
Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)
Since 2017, the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) has orchestrated regular parabolic flights through the ZERO-G Research Program to test experiments that rely ...
ISSRDC to highlight opportunities within biomanufacturing in space
Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)
Spaceflight studies over the last decade have shown that microgravity can enable a better understanding of fundamental biology and accelerate advancements in he...
Boeing attempts uncrewed test flight to ISS a second time
Aug 03, 2021 (AFP)
The spaceship is due to launch on an Atlas V rocket built by the United Launch Alliance from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:20 pm Eastern ti...
Space station mishap caused orbiting lab to rotate 1 1/2 times, NASA says
Aug 03, 2021 (UPI)
"Mission control got alerts on the ground at the same time astronauts got an alert that the attitude [position] of the space station was changing," Dan Huot, a ...
Boeing delays key uncrewed test flight to ISS
Aug 03, 2021 (AFP)
The spaceship had been due to launch on an United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida early in the after...
Russia to stop using ISS by 2028, create own National Space Station
Aug 03, 2021 (Sputnik)
The corporation's Scientific and Technical Council held a meeting earlier in the day. "After reviewing the current state of the Russian section of the ISS, the ...
Blue Origin to launch space tourist flight next week
Jul 29, 2021 (UPI)
Blue Origin said in a news release that NS-22 will lift off at 8:30 a.m. from Launch Site One at the company's site in West Texas on Thursday. The flight will m...
Russia's Nauka science module docks with ISS
Jul 29, 2021 (AFP)
The mission comes after more than a decade of delays and as Russia seeks to boost its space industry, which has fallen behind since the collapse of the Soviet U...
High-stakes Boeing capsule launch postponed due to mishap at ISS
Jul 29, 2021 (UPI)
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket had been scheduled to launch the capsule on an uncrewed test flight from Florida. But a new Russian module, Nauka, creat...
Space Tourism, Space Entrepreneurs and the Business and Economics of Space
Jul 28, 2021 (SPX)
Another billionaire, Richard Branson, also did a similar trip just nine days before on July 11 on the Virgin Galactic space plane, VSS Unity. Branson also recei...
Space food costs are out of this world
Jul 27, 2021 (SPX)
Since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA has been using other sources for resupplying the station. Initially, Russia provided this service, but m...
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