Beijing (XNA) May 17, 2021 - China's Tianzhou 2 cargo spacecraft and its carrier rocket - a Long March 7 - were moved to the launchpad on Sunday morning, undergoing final tests before their planned launch in the coming days, ac
Washington DC (UPI) May 16, 2021 - The second crew of astronauts set to launch on a totally private space mission said Tuesday they feel inspired by the responsibility and significance of their flight.
Beijing (AFP) May 15, 2021 - China's probe to Mars touched down on the Red Planet early Saturday to deploy its Zhurong rover, state media reported, a triumph for Beijing's increasingly bold space ambitions and a history-making feat for a nation on its first-ever Martian mission.
West Palm Beach FL (SPX) May 13, 2021 - Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed a successful RL10C-X altitude hot fire test series that put the next generation engine through the rigors of a typical spaceflight mission. Using a test chamber
Moscow (AFP) May 13, 2021 - Russia said Thursday it would send an actress and a director into space to make the first feature film in the cosmos and also deliver an eccentric Japanese billionaire to the International Space Station.
Washington (AFP) May 13, 2021 - Elon Musk's SpaceX announced Thursday that Google would team up with its Starlink satellite internet service to deliver cloud computing services to business customers.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 13, 2021 - Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is carrying out combined tests to prepare for the arrival of Ariane 6, Europe's next generation heavy-lift launch vehicle. The first Ariane 6 fairing has al
Moscow (AFP) May 13, 2021 - Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano will be the next tourists to travel to the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's space agency Roscosmos said Thursday.
Tokyo (AFP) May 13, 2021 - Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who will travel to the International Space Station as a tourist in December aboard a Russian spacecraft, is a former wannabe rock star worth $1.9 billion with a penchant for pricey modern art as well as space travel.
Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) May 13, 2021 - Most of us have imagined how free it would feel to float around, like an astronaut, in conditions of reduced gravity. But have you ever considered what the effects of reduced gravity might have on m
Washington DC (SPX) May 13, 2021 - In military, and many civilian settings, hemorrhage is the leading cause of potentially survivable, traumatic pre-hospital death. 1, 2, 3 Transfusion of whole blood is the preferred resuscitation fl
Paris (ESA) May 13, 2021 - Spacewalking is a major highlight of any astronaut's career. But there is a downside: putting on your spacesuit means sharing some previously-worn underlayers. A new ESA study is looking into how be
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 11, 2021 - Billionaire Jeff Bezos's space launch company Blue Origin has announced it will sell its first flights into microgravity to the highest bidder. Blue Origin and its two greatest competitors in
Orlando FL (SPX) May 11, 2021 - University of Central Florida researchers are building on their technology that could pave the way for hypersonic flight, such as travel from New York to Los Angeles in under 30 minutes. In th
Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2021 - NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to take place no earlier than January 2022. We are excited to see more peo
Ithaca NY (SPX) May 11, 2021 - Voyager 1 - one of two sibling NASA spacecraft launched 44 years ago and now the most distant human-made object in space - still works and zooms toward infinity. The craft has long since zippe
