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Indian Space Station to Have Room for Three Astronauts, Says Space Research Body
Nov 01, 2019 (Sputnik)
"We don't want to be part of ISS (International Space Station). Our station, which will be set up in five to seven years, won't be very big", Indian daily Times...
Astronaut smart glove to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond
Nov 01, 2019 (SPX)
NASA plans to return to the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program, and then send astronauts to Mars. Both missions are expected to include an expansion of surfa...
'From the internet up': Toronto plans futuristic bayfront
Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)
Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's parent Alphabet, has proposed building a carbon-neutral community "from the internet up," where tall buildings would be ...
Travel boom has not made world smaller, says writer Pico Iyer
Oct 30, 2019 (AFP)
Speaking to AFP ahead of his headline appearance at next month's Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the author argues that people are sometimes "so awar...
Falklands banking on king penguins to drive nature tourism
Oct 30, 2019 (AFP)
Their fluffy brown chicks are nearly fearless of humans, meaning tourists at Volunteer Point, a peninsula on East Falkland Island, might get almost close enough...
ESA and Airbus to cooperate on the Bartolomeo platform
Oct 28, 2019 (ESA)
The Bartolomeo service will provide end-to-end access for external payloads on the Station. A new community of start-ups and space entrepreneurs will benefit fr...
Virgin Galactic to become 1st space tourism company on NYSE
Oct 25, 2019 (UPI)
The Wednesday filing shows the company, founded by Richard Branson, was expected to merge Friday with Social Capital Hedosophia, a venture capital firm. After t...
Roscosmos agrees to reschedule Progress launch following request from NASA
Oct 25, 2019 (Sputnik)
Russia's Roscosmos space agency has agreed to move up the launch of the Progress MS-13 cargo spacecraft to the ISS at NASA's request, representatives from both ...
Nanoracks signs with Maritime Launch on re-use of C4M stages for in-orbit outposts
Oct 24, 2019 (SPX)
In 2018, Nanoracks was one of the awardees of a study contract by NASA to develop the future of commercial spaceflight in low-Earth orbit. Through that award, N...
Russia customising Soyuz for tourist trips
Oct 24, 2019 (Sputnik)
"A ship for a specialised mission is being customised so that it will be easier for one person to pilot it, and some modes will not be duplicated as they are su...
Nanoracks and Kayser to jointly open temperature controlled microgravity research on ISS
Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)
Kayser Italia, in partnership with the European Space Agency, will have access to the KUBIK Incubator, under the Bioreactor Express Service partnership agreemen...
US vows closer cooperation with French space agency
Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of France's space agency, CNES, signed a declaration of intent, announcing expanded collabora...
Iran to discuss possibility of sending its astronaut to ISS with Russia
Oct 23, 2019 (Sputnik)
Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi has said that Iran intends to send an astronaut to space, noting that...
How the International Space Station is helping us get to the Moon
Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)
Missions to the Moon will include a combination of time aboard the Gateway, on the lunar surface, and in multiple spacecraft including Orion and the human landi...
Quantum leap in computing as scientists claim 'supremacy'
Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)
A team of experts working on Google's Sycamore machine said their quantum system had executed a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken a classic compu...
NASA's Bridenstine boosts international pitch for moon, Mars missions
Oct 21, 2019 (UPI)
"When we go to the moon, we want to take all of the partners we have on the International Space Station and we want to grow it," Bridenstine said at an annual g...
China talks up tech prowess in face of US rivalry
Oct 20, 2019 (AFP)
US-China rivalry is increasingly playing out in the digital sphere, as Beijing pursues dominance in next-generation technology while Washington takes measures t...
Meir, Koch complete first all-female spacewalk
Oct 18, 2019 (UPI)
The mission was originally supposed to last rough 5.5 hours, but the duo ended up spending 7 hours and 17 minutes outside the space station. After completing th...
Huntsville to Host NASA's 2019 International Space Apps Challenge
Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)
The teams then work with NASA's open source data and products and design innovative solutions to scientific challenges faced on Earth and in space. Facilitated ...
Virgin Galactic to go public soon, plans to launch space tourism internationally
Oct 18, 2019 (Sputnik)
Virgin Galactic, Virgin's space tourism project, may be close to listing its shares publicly once its regular flights begin, billionaire founder Richard Branson...
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