Paris (ESA) Feb 22, 2018 - Astronauts tend to become taller in weightlessness - causing back pain and making it difficult to fit into spacesuits. Astronauts may be more likely to suffer from 'slipped discs' after landing.
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 - Vice President Mike Pence returned to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 20, this time to chair a meeting of the recently re-established National Space Council. During his first trip to
Washington (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 - Elon Musk's Space-X sent a Spanish military satellite into orbit Thursday in a hitch-less liftoff from California, extending the private space company's record of successful launches.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 - Teams at U.S. colleges and universities have an opportunity to potentially help NASA with innovative design ideas to meet the challenges of space exploration. The 2019 eXploration Systems and Habita
Washington (UPI) Feb 21, 2018 - Space Coast Launch Services has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force for launch operations support facilities and systems in Cape Canaveral.
Moscow (AFP) Feb 21, 2018 - Russia on Wednesday jailed three men and a woman for up to 8 years for embezzling state funding worth millions of dollars while working as contractors on the construction of the country's showpiece Vostochny cosmodrome.
Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2018 - A start-up company from an ESA business incubator is offering affordable air-quality monitors for homes, schools and businesses using technology it developed for the International Space Station.
Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 16, 2018 - Russian Progress MS-08 cargo spacecraft automatically docked on Thursday with the International Space Station (ISS) after being launched on Tuesday atop the Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the Baikonur cosmo
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 - A group of NUST MISIS's young scientists, for the very first time in Russia, has presented a new therapeutic material based on nanofibers made of polycaprolactone modified with a thin-film antibacte
Washington (AFP) Feb 16, 2018 - A Japanese and an American astronaut floated for hours outside the International Space Station Friday on a spacewalk to repair the orbiting outpost's robotic arm and move some equipment into storage.
Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 16, 2018 - US President Donald Trump wants to privatize the International Space Station, looking to turn the station into an orbiting real estate venture run not by the government, but by private industry. Rad
Vernon, France (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 - The re-ignitable Vinci, engine, which will power the upper stage of the Ariane 6 launcher, has now successfully completed its last two subsystems qualification campaigns (M6 and M7) with 140 engine
Xichang, China (XNA) Feb 15, 2018 - The Long March-3B rocket launched Monday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province marked the seventh successful mission of the Long March rocket series since th
Atlanta GA (SPX) Feb 14, 2018 - Biomedical engineers have developed a miniature self-sealing model system for studying bleeding and the clotting of wounds. The researchers envision the device as a drug discovery platform and poten
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 - The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on the Fiscal Year 2019 agency budget proposal. It is my privilege [today] to present President Trump's Fiscal Yea
University Park PA (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 - Medical devices powered by synthetic proteins created from repeated sequences of proteins may be possible, according to materials science and biotechnology experts, who looked at material inspired b
