Washington DC (UPI) Jan 02, 2021 - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station celebrated the New Year in part by eating radishes, the first vegetables grown in space besides leafy greens.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 01, 2021 - Space Exploration Technologies Inc. (SpaceX), Hawthorne, California, has been awarded a $150,450,000 firm-fixed-price contract for launch services from Vandenberg Air Force Base for the Space Develo
Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 01, 2021 - Tiny fruit flies are helping NASA study how brain activity and sleep patterns change when organisms live in the microgravity of space. An experiment on the International Space Station will bui
Beijing (XNA) Jan 01, 2021 - Some of the 40 grams of rice seeds that made a round trip to the moon have sprouted and are ready for follow-up studies, according to Science Daily on Monday. The rice seeds traveled to the mo
Beijing (XNA) Jan 01, 2021 - China's space industry has produced a remarkable scorecard this year: characterized by the nation's first independent Mars mission, the completion of a global navigation satellite network and a land
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2021 - Russia plans to perform three launches of the Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome next year, three times more than in 2020, a space industry source told Sputnik. This year, on
Beijing (XNA) Jan 01, 2021 - China launched a Long March 4C carrier rocket late on Sunday, bringing an end to its annual space plan for 2020. The 48-meter rocket lifted off at 11:44 pm at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Cent
Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 01, 2021 - Launching people into orbit from U.S. soil again during two SpaceX launches topped the year's accomplishments in spaceflight. With that and other achievements, it was a strong year for Elon Musk's c
Bangkok, Thailand (SPX) Dec 30, 2020 - 2020 was the time when the space scene was lively again, with the Thai government pushing for space-activity-related legislation and creating mechanisms to promote and support both the government an
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 25, 2020 - In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic demanded the attention of thousands of scientists, but they had a lot to look in to, including vaccines and treatments for the novel coronavirus. Many scientists
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 25, 2020 - The United States may buy a seat on Russia's Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft to deliver its astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) in the spring of 2021, a source in the space and rocket industry
Changsha, China (XNA) Dec 25, 2020 - China plans to launch the core module of its manned space station in the first half of 2021, a senior official said Friday. The core module will be sent by a Long March-5B Y2 rocket from the W
Beijing (XNA) Dec 23, 2020 - Five days after China concluded its historic 23-day Chang'e 5 lunar mission, Chinese space engineers made a new achievement with the debut flight of the country's newest carrier rocket. The Lo
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 23, 2020 - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is holding a public scoping period for the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) related to plans by SpaceX to apply for licenses for suborbital and orbital l
Beijing (Sputnik) Dec 22, 2020 - Having finished its primary mission, the part of China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft that remained in space has departed for a new mission: exploring an unusual area of space known as a Lagrangian point.
Beijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2020 - China's new carrier rocket, the Long March-8, made its maiden flight on Tuesday, the country's space agency said, the first phase of a strategy to deploy launch vehicles that can be reused.
