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Asteroids vs. microbes
Jan 15, 2021 (ESA)
The University of Edinburgh's 'BioAsteroid' payload is one of multiple experiments running simultaneously aboard ESA's Kubik - Russian for cube - facility aboar...
Glenn's Power Systems Facility has supported Station research for decades
Jan 15, 2021 (SPX)
Lewis engineers began planning the $6.2 million facility in 1984, shortly after being assigned responsibility for the station's massive electrical power system....
Muscles, metals, bubbles and rotifers - a month of European science in space
Jan 15, 2021 (ESA)
The arrival of the 21st cargo spaceship Dragon on 7 December brought new experiments to unpack and prepare, while the impending return of SpaceX CRS-21 meant ot...
Blue Origin launches, recovers capsule with more space tourism amenities
Jan 14, 2021 (UPI)
The uncrewed flight lifted off at 12:19 p.m. EST from the company's Corn Ranch spaceport about 150 miles east of El Paso, Texas. About 11 minutes later, the boo...
Prepping for a spacewalk to install Colka on ISS external hull
Jan 13, 2021 (ESA)
In 2016, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst performed such an underwater rehearsal for the Colka high speed radio, the brown box imaged above, that will be installed...
Cultivating plant growth in space
Jan 12, 2021 (SPX)
Ying Diao was recently awarded the NASA Early Career Faculty award for her proposal: Remote Autonomous Plant Sensing for Space Exploration Enabled by Wearable P...
NASA Extends Exploration for Two Planetary Science Missions
Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)
The missions - Juno and InSight - have each increased our understanding of our solar system, as well as spurred new sets of diverse questions. An independent re...
European Gateway module to be built in France as Thomas Pesquet readies for second spaceflight
Jan 11, 2021 (ESA)
The Gateway is being built by the partners of the International Space Station and will enable sustainable exploration around - and on - the Moon, while allowing...
Northrop Grumman's NG-14 Cygnus Spacecraft completes primary mission to ISS
Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)
"For more than six years, Northrop Grumman has supported human spaceflight by delivering critical cargo to astronauts aboard the International Space Station and...
NASA prepares Orion simulator for lunar mission training
Jan 06, 2021 (UPI)
Weak funding from Congress has cast doubt over the schedule for such lunar missions, but NASA is moving forward with preparations, officials have said. Lockheed...
NASA explores upper limits of global navigation systems for Artemis
Jan 06, 2021 (SPX)
To support these ambitions, NASA navigation engineers from the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program are developing a navigation architecture that ...
Roscosmos Head reveals likely cause of crack in ISS module hull
Jan 05, 2021 (Sputnik)
The crack discovered in the hull of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) in October might have been caused by a micrometeorite impact, h...
Houston Spaceport aims to be first commercial space station builder
Jan 05, 2021 (SPX)
"While we have confronted the challenges of a global pandemic this year, our work to move our city forward never stops. This announcement is another leap that d...
Space-bred seeds offer valuable opportunities
Jan 05, 2021 (XNA)
More than 30 kinds of seeds, including rice, oats, alfalfa and orchid, were placed inside the multi-module Chang'e 5 spacecraft and orbited around the moon for ...
Astronauts eat first radishes grown in space as 2020 ends
Jan 02, 2021 (UPI)
The space radishes were grown from seeds over the past 27 days in the microgravity of orbit as part of NASA's program to develop space agriculture. The astronau...
Rice seeds carried to the moon and back sprout
Jan 01, 2021 (XNA)
The rice seeds traveled to the moon and returned to Earth after 23 days of flight aboard China's Chang'e 5 lunar probe. This marks the first time China conducte...
US may buy seat on Russia's Soyuz for astronaut's flight to ISS in Spring 2021,
Dec 25, 2020 (Sputnik)
In November, the Russian state space corporation of Roscosmos said that the crew of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, whose launch is scheduled for April 9, will cons...
Marsquakes, water on other planets, asteroid hunting highlight 2020 in space
Dec 25, 2020 (UPI)
Many scientists kept their attention on the skies, searching for answers to cosmic mysteries and preparing for the next chapter in the history of human spacefli...
China to launch core module of space station in first half of 2021
Dec 25, 2020 (XNA)
The core module will be sent by a Long March-5B Y2 rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan Province, said Zhou Jianping, chief designer of Chi...
Russian cosmonaut says new air leak on ISS Zvezda module not critical
Dec 21, 2020 (Sputnik)
On Friday, experts from the Moscow Region-based Mission Control Center asked the ISS crew to help locate the air leak in the Russian module Zvezda, as the stati...
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