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Space Travel Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Space Travel Editorial Team produces Space Travel's coverage of human spaceflight and access to space. We report on launch, crewed missions and space tourism, and the propulsion, vehicles and human factors of getting people to space. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Space Travel takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Space Travel

Awe and fear: how Russian cosmonaut recalled first spacewalk

Moscow (AFP) Oct 11, 2019 - Alexei Leonov, the first man to do a space walk, died at the age of 85 on Friday. Here AFP republishes an interview with the cosmonaut from 2015, conducted on the 50th anniversary of his extraordinary achievement:

Oct 11, 2019

Rocket Science

NASA, SpaceX present united front on human spaceflight

Orlando FL (SPX) Oct 11, 2019 - NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk presented a united front Thursday on the United States' pursuit to return to human spaceflight. This is a big deal for our country,

Oct 11, 2019

Space Travel

First man to perform spacewalk dies

Moscow (AFP) Oct 11, 2019 - Alexei Leonov, a legendary Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to perform a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness.

Oct 11, 2019

Rocket Science

NASA and SpaceX hope for manned mission to ISS in early 2020

Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 11, 2019 - SpaceX could launch US astronauts to the International Space Station as early as next year if tests on the company's long-delayed Crew Dragon capsule prove conclusive, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Thursday.

Oct 11, 2019

Rocket Science

SwRI hypersonic research spotlights future flight challenges

San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 - Southwest Research Institute engineers are advancing what researchers know about hypersonic flight. A new study presented at the 2019 Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) Propulsion Meeting descr

Oct 10, 2019

Rocket Science

Jet taking off from Florida will launch NASA weather satellite

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 10, 2019 - After a two-year delay, NASA is ready to use a jet aircraft to launch a new space weather satellite from Florida on Thursday night, weather permitting. The Ionospheric Connection Explorer or I

Oct 10, 2019

Space Travel

Raytheon to help Jet Propulsion Lab explore the universe

Dulles VA (SPX) Oct 09, 2019 - Raytheon will develop new space systems and flight software, and provide engineering, training and operations support for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech, under a five-year, $15

Oct 9, 2019

Rocket Science

Sea Launch platform stripped of foreign equipment, ready to leave US for Russia

Los Angeles CA (Sputnik) Oct 09, 2019 - The mobile maritime space port, designed to launch commercial payloads using specially-made rockets from near the equator, remains moored off California despite being purchased by a major Russian ai

Oct 9, 2019

Space Travel

Astronauts grow ‘space meat’ but admit taste ‘needs to be improved’

Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 09, 2019 - As global consumption of meat is projected to rise by 88 percent between 2010 and 2050 by the World Resources Institute, science is seeking less resource-intensive ways of producing it, with in vitr

Oct 9, 2019

Space Travel

Humans will not ‘migrate’ to other planets, Nobel winner says

Madrid (AFP) Oct 9, 2019 - Humans will never migrate to a planet outside of Earth's solar system because it would take far too long to get there, Swiss Nobel laureate Michel Mayor said Wednesday.

Oct 9, 2019

Rocket Science

Boeing’s HorizonX $20M investment in Virgin Galactic values VG at $1.5B

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 09, 2019 - An exploratory division of U.S. aviation giant Boeing will make a $20 million investment for a stake in space tourism company Virgin Galactic, officials said Tuesday. Boeing's venture arm Hori

Oct 9, 2019

Space Travel

NASA iTech Challenge kicks off in Las Cruces, New Mexico

Las Cruces NM (SPX) Oct 09, 2019 - Ten companies have presented cutting-edge technology ideas that could be used in space to NASA's iTech program in Las Cruces this week. The New Mexico Partnership is proud to support this iTech even

Oct 9, 2019

Space Travel

‘One small nibble for man’: 3D printer makes meat in space

Moscow (AFP) Oct 9, 2019 - The prospect of astronauts tucking into a roast dinner has grown slightly closer after a successful experiment used a 3D printer to create meat on the International Space Station.

Oct 9, 2019

Space Travel

Russia bestows medal on US astronaut in failed launch

Moscow (AFP) Oct 8, 2019 - Russia has decorated NASA astronaut Nick Hague, who survived an aborted space launch last year, with one of its highest honours, the Order of Courage, a Kremlin decree said on Tuesday.

Oct 8, 2019

Space Travel

Spacesuits prepped for upcoming spacewalks

Houston TX (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 - NASA astronauts have been busy getting their spacesuits ready to go in preparation for a suite of 10 spacewalks outside the International Space Station. The first of five spacewalks to replace nicke

Oct 7, 2019

Space Travel

Astronauts will spend much of October outside the space station

Washington (UPI) Oct 7, 2019 - October is spacewalk month for astronauts aboard the space station. By the end of the month, crew members will have completed a total of five spacewalks. Most of their time outside will be spent making upgrades to the space station's power system.

Oct 7, 2019