
SpaceX in orbit on route to ISS
Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Apr 23, 2021 - SpaceX launched its third crew to the International Space Station an hour before sunrise Friday, recycling a rocket and spacecraft for the first time.
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Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Apr 23, 2021 - SpaceX launched its third crew to the International Space Station an hour before sunrise Friday, recycling a rocket and spacecraft for the first time.
Apr 23, 2021

Kennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) April 22, 2021 - From muscle loss to radiation exposure and the psychological effects of confinement, spaceflight takes a toll on those lucky enough to experience it.
Apr 22, 2021

Washington DC (UPI) Apr 22, 2021 - Astronaut Kate Rubins, who returned from a mission almost a week ago, has urged more research into growing produce while in orbit.
Apr 22, 2021

Paris (ESA) Apr 22, 2021 - On 23 April 2001, ESA astronaut Umberto Guidoni first set foot, or hand, on the International Space Station, making him the first European to visit and work the orbiting outpost. Since then, the Spa
Apr 22, 2021

Boca Raton FL (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 - American Pacific Corporation, a leading manufacturer of propulsion related materials for the Aerospace, Space and Defense industries, announced today that it has made a minority investment in Fronti
Apr 21, 2021

Kennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) April 21, 2021 - A crewed SpaceX mission to the International Space Station has been postponed by a day due to weather concerns downrange of the launch site, NASA said Wednesday.
Apr 21, 2021

Houston TX (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 - Astronauts who spend extended time in space face stressors such as isolation, confinement, lack of privacy, altered light-dark cycles, monotony and separation from family. Interestingly, so do peopl
Apr 21, 2021

Washington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2021 - The first private astronaut crew aboard the International Space Station is set to return to Earth on Sunday after weather delays and NASA's Crew-4 mission will look to launch on Tuesday.
Apr 21, 2021

Houston TX (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 - On Earth, we often look toward the sky longing to know what resides in the rest of the universe. Meanwhile, 250 miles above our planet, the International Space Station is looking back. Above u
Apr 21, 2021

Bay St. Louis MS (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 - Crews at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, worked April 19-20 to remove the first flight core stage of the agency's Space Launch System rocket from the B-2 Test Stand in p
Apr 21, 2021

Paris (AFP) April 21, 2021 - In two decades orbiting the Earth the International Space Station has become a cutting-edge cosmic laboratory, with astronauts researching everything from black holes to disease and even gardening in microgravity.
Apr 21, 2021

Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 21, 2021 - China now has 400 satellites in orbit, second only in number to the United States and it is projected to have at least one thousand of them deployed by the end of this decade, Space Command chief Ar
Apr 21, 2021

Bethesda, MD (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 - Many recent articles have expressed concern about the growing amount of junk floating around Earth in low orbits. Ultimately, the mass and distribution of junk and active satellites will exceed the
Apr 21, 2021

Nanjing (XNA) Apr 21, 2021 - Space-tracking ship Yuanwang 5 departed from a port in East China's Jiangsu province on Tuesday for a maritime monitoring mission in the Pacific Ocean. Before this voyage, the crew members hav
Apr 21, 2021

Paris (AFP) April 21, 2021 - Detect harmful radiation, pilot a rover module, learn better sleep and body maintenance: astronauts aboard the International Space Station are preparing for future missions even further afield - from the Moon to, one day, Mars.
Apr 21, 2021

Houston TX (SPX) Apr 21, 2021 - NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission is set to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon on Earth Day, April 22. The four include NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough
Apr 21, 2021