
Virgin Galactic unveils commercial space suits
Yonkers, United States (AFP) Oct 17, 2019 - The date for the world's first commercial space flight is not even confirmed yet, but future passengers' Star Trek-like outfits are ready and waiting.
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Yonkers, United States (AFP) Oct 17, 2019 - The date for the world's first commercial space flight is not even confirmed yet, but future passengers' Star Trek-like outfits are ready and waiting.
Oct 17, 2019

Washington (UPI) Oct 17, 2019 - Officials and astronauts at NASA recognize the historical significance of Friday's spacewalk to replace battery system hardware - it is the first to feature an all-female repair team.
Oct 17, 2019

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 - One day after NASA unveiled prototype spacesuits designed to explore the moon and Mars, Under Armour on Wednesday revealed new equipment it says will be worn by space tourists when Virgin Galactic b
Oct 17, 2019

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 - DARPA launched the Safe Genes program in 2017 to establish a safety by design strategy for guiding the development of an array of powerful, emergent genome editing technologies. Consistent with th
Oct 16, 2019

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 - Researchers at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands have produced crops in Mars and Moon soil simulant developed by NASA. The research supports the idea that it would not only be po
Oct 16, 2019

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 16, 2019 - NASA officials on Tuesday decided to postpone a series of spacewalks scheduled for this week after a hardware component failed over the weekend. Plans to remove old batters and install newer,
Oct 16, 2019

Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2019 - Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin announced earlier this year that Russia and Saudi Arabia had created a space cooperation programme under which the two sides floated th
Oct 15, 2019

Washington (UPI) Oct 15, 2019 - Deployment of a long-range hypersonic weapon system by the U.S. Army is expected by 2023, the Association of the United States Army was told at its annual convention.
Oct 15, 2019

Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2019 - Bye bye to bunny hops: when US astronauts next touch down on the Moon, expect them to walk almost as they do on Earth, thanks to a new generation of spacesuits offering key advantages over those of the Apollo-era.
Oct 15, 2019

Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2019 - After an infamous spacesuit flub earlier this year that resulted in accusations of sexism, NASA now plans to carry out the first all-female spacewalk this week, it said Tuesday.
Oct 15, 2019

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 - Aerojet Rocketdyne has entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to design and manufacture a lightweight rocket engine thrust chamber assembly using innovative addi
Oct 14, 2019

Nanjing (XNA) Oct 14, 2019 - China's two rocket-carrying ships departed Saturday from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province on a transportation mission. The two Yuanwang ships are China's first ships made exclusively to
Oct 14, 2019

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 - Aerojet Rocketdyne has entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to design and manufacture a lightweight rocket engine thrust chamber assembly using innovative addi
Oct 14, 2019

Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 - With the August 22 launch of Lockheed Martin's GPS III SV02 satellite aboard the final Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) launch vehicle, the Space and Missile Systems Center's Launch Enterprise marked the succ
Oct 14, 2019

Abu Dhabi (AFP) Oct 12, 2019 - An Emirati astronaut who became the first Arab to reach the International Space Station received a hero's welcome home on Saturday.
Oct 12, 2019

Paris (ESA) Oct 11, 2019 - European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano is preparing to step out into space for his first spacewalk of the Beyond mission. Scheduled for 25 October, he will work with NASA astrona
Oct 11, 2019