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Mission control at work in Houston
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
Spacewalkers are in constant contact with just one person during a spacewalk. This 'ground IV' is a fellow astronaut who is experienced with every procedure of ...
Out-of-this-world wine back in Bordeaux after space station trip
Feb 02, 2021 (AFP)
The red wine and 320 mature shoots known as canes arrived Monday after their return to Earth via a Dragon capsule operated by SpaceX, the private launching comp...
NASA details plan to deorbit International Space Station in 2031
Feb 01, 2021 (UPI)
The ISS will deorbit in January 2031 ahead of crashing it into an uninhabited area of the South Pacific Ocean near to Point Nemo, which has been called a "space...
NASA, Boeing test crew return and recovery procedures
Feb 01, 2021 (SPX)
When astronauts land after their journey to the space station on Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, recovery teams must be able to remove the crew from the ...
Dubai creates 'space court' for out-of-this-world disputes
Feb 01, 2021 (AFP)
The tribunal will be based at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts, an independent British-inspired arbitration centre based on common law. Sp...
Artificial intelligence behind 21st Century spaceflight
Jan 29, 2021 (ESA)
Throughout 1960s and 70s, launches quickly increase, as the USA, Soviet Union and other countries race for space, discovering and utilising the immense value of...
Space firm plans first all-private crew for 2022 launch
Jan 29, 2021 (UPI)
Former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, a vice president at Axiom, would be flight commander. Ohio real estate and financial technology entrepreneur Larr...
Exposing unmentionable human functions in space
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
By the time NASA began launching Gemini, astronauts were urinating into relief tubes and the resulting contents were dumped into space. There was a rumor that s...
Remembering Challenger and Her Crew
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
The first mission of 1986, STS-61C, delayed from December 1985, flew between Jan. 12 and 18. The next flight, designated STS-51L, marked the 25th in the program...
ISS crew member reveals difficulties of filming virtual reality documentary in space
Jan 29, 2021 (Sputnik)
In December, Russia's Space Agency Roscosmos announced it is producing a documentary series - together with Canada's Felix and Paul Studios - called "Space Expl...
Spacewalk to fit ground-breaking British kit to ISS
Jan 28, 2021 (SPX)
Called ColKa for 'Columbus Ka-band Terminal', the UK Space Agency-funded system will revolutionise scientists' ability in the UK and Europe to access the result...
Axiom Space reveals historic first private crew to visit International Space Station
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
The proposed historic Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) will consist of: former NASA astronaut and Axiom vice president Michael Lopez-Alegria as commander; American entrep...
Showtime for ColKa
Jan 27, 2021 (ESA)
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is seen in this image installing the Columbus Ka-band or ColKa terminal that will enable faster communication with Europe during ...
NASA spacewalk partially hooks up new science platform
Jan 27, 2021 (UPI)
Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover spent 6 hours, 56 minutes on the spacewalk. The assignment was the first spacewalk for Glover, the first Black astronaut to live ...
NASA and Boeing target new launch date for next Starliner flight test
Jan 26, 2021 (SPX)
The target launch date is enabled by an opening on the Eastern Range, the availability of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, steady progress on hardware...
NASA may limit its presence in Russia over shrinking cooperation on ISS
Jan 22, 2021 (Sputnik)
NASA currently has a central office in Moscow as well as its missions in the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center in Zvyozdny Gorodok, in the Mis...
Bridenstine leaves NASA, calls for unity in space, science efforts
Jan 20, 2021 (UPI)
Bridenstine, who left on the day of President Joe Biden's inauguration, made a public plea for continued support of NASA and planned missions to the moon and Ma...
Tourism on track in the world's largest cave
Jan 20, 2021 (AFP)
Phuc, who once earned a living through illegal logging, is a porter for the small tour groups that explore Vietnam's Son Doong -- a cave so large it has its own...
Pandemic drags German admin out of the 1980s
Jan 19, 2021 (AFP)
With coronavirus shutdowns exposing a catalogue of digital failings in schools, teachers in Berlin will get their own email addresses this year instead of havin...
Cosmonauts complete first spacewalk of 2022 to prepare Russian ISS segment
Jan 19, 2021 (UPI)
Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, spent seven hours, 11 minutes outside the space station after exiting just after 7 a.m...
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