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Google teams with Samsung for wearables platform
May 18, 2021 (AFP)
The move, announced at the Google developer conference in California, means Samsung will use Google's Wear OS for its upcoming Galaxy smartwatches instead of it...
Project Examines How to Water Plants in Space
May 17, 2021 (SPX)
This project is part of ongoing NASA research to learn how to feed astronaut crews during long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars, as they spend weeks, mont...
Scientists find new use for valve invented by Nikola Tesla 100 years ago
May 17, 2021 (UPI)
Researchers conducted a variety of tests using the valvular conduit, or Tesla valve. The results revealed the valve to be much more capable than Tesla assumed. ...
NASA Invests $105 Million in US Small Business Technology Development
May 17, 2021 (SPX)
The awards to these small businesses, located across 34 states and Washington, D.C., total $105 million. NASA's small business program is dedicated to finding t...
Ax-2 crew carrying personal, cultural mementoes on launch to ISS
May 16, 2021 (UPI)
The four-member Axiom Space crew is scheduled to lift off at 5:37 p.m. EDT Sunday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They'll travel in a SpaceX Crew Dragon c...
How to keep spacesuit 'underwear' clean?
May 13, 2021 (ESA)
During the Space Shuttle era, each astronaut was issued with their own 'External Mobility Unit', the official term for a spacesuit. But crews aboard the Interna...
Japanese billionaire Maezawa to travel to ISS in December
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
Maezawa and Hirano will travel aboard a Russian "Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft that is scheduled for launch on December 8, 2021 from the Baikonur cosmodrome" in Kazakh...
Russia to send film crew, Japanese billionaire to space
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
Moscow is seeking to boost its embattled space programme, which has stagnated since the collapse of the Soviet Union and been overtaken by US tech billionaire E...
Yusaku Maezawa: Japan's billionaire spaceman with a taste for art
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
The 45-year-old tycoon, founder of Japan's largest online fashion mall, is the country's 30th richest person, according to business magazine Forbes. It will be ...
Want to become a space tourist
May 11, 2021 (SPX)
Blue Origin and its two greatest competitors in the "space tourism" field, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, claim to be advancing humanity through the "democratisati...
NASA, Axiom Agree to First Private Astronaut Mission on Space Station
May 11, 2021 (SPX)
"We are excited to see more people have access to spaceflight through this first private astronaut mission to the space station," said Kathy Lueders, associate ...
In the emptiness of space, Voyager I detects plasma 'hum'
May 11, 2021 (SPX)
The craft has long since zipped past the edge of the solar system through the heliopause - the solar system's border with interstellar space - into the interste...
Crew training begins soon for first private trip to ISS
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
Four astronauts are to be launched to the ISS in late January aboard a rocket built by another space company, Elon Musk's SpaceX. Only one of the four -- NASA v...
Starliner completes full space station mission simulation
May 07, 2021 (SPX)
Gearing up for the program's first AMR took several months of preparation configuring hardware and software, routing communications channels, mapping simulated ...
I felt really heavy: astronauts describe returning to Earth on SpaceX capsule
May 07, 2021 (AFP)
A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying the crew back to Earth splashed down off Florida early Sunday in NASA's first nighttime ocean landing in more than 50 year...
Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule now aiming for July launch
May 06, 2021 (AFP)
The launch has been postponed multiple times, with the last announced date of April scuppered due to a cold snap that caused extensive power outages in Texas in...
Blue Origin will fly first crew to space in July
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
The trip will last a total of ten minutes, four of which passengers will spend above the Karman line that marks the recognized boundary between Earth's atmosphe...
NASA's Crew-3 astronauts splash down in Gulf of Mexico
May 05, 2021 (UPI)
NASA's Raja Chari, Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn and Germany's Matthias Maurer splashed down in their Dragon Endurance capsule at 12:43 a.m. EDT. "We're glad t...
Blue Origin opens online auction for seat on 1st crewed flight
May 05, 2021 (UPI)
The New Shepard suborbital space tourism rocket is expected to be launched July 20 from the company's spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, about 120 miles southeast ...
Space aged: wine matured aboard ISS expected to sell for $1mn
May 04, 2021 (AFP)
Christie's hopes the bottle, now up for grabs in a private sale, will fetch $1 million, which would make it the most expensive wine ever sold. The bottle is one...
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