Houston TX (SPX) Nov 22, 2016 - Just five months into its two-year demonstration mission on the International Space Station, the first human-rated expandable habitat in low-Earth orbit is already returning valuable information abo
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 22, 2016 - Processing activity at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has ramped up in preparation for the agency's launch of the Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on its first deep
Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 22, 2016 - Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation is ready to continue the delivery of mixed crews to the International Space Station (ISS) after 2018 using Russian manned spacecraft, Roscosmos head Igor K
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Nov 21, 2016 - The moon is a steady sight in the great Colorado sky, brightening dark nights and reminding Airmen of the importance of the wing mission, but an extra super supermoon flew closer to Earth than pre
Norman OK (SPX) Nov 21, 2016 - A new class of drugs that combat antibiotic resistance has been discovered by a University of Oklahoma researcher and team. In the study supported by the National Institutes of Health, laboratory ex
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2016 - A spacecraft mission's entry, descent, and landing (EDL) phases are some of the most dangerous parts of the vehicle's journey into deep space and must be carefully planned. Because it is nearl
Beijing (XNA) Nov 21, 2016 - Two astronauts who completed China's longest-ever manned space mission returned to Earth safely Friday afternoon. Zhang Youxia, commander-in-chief of China's manned space program, announced that the
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2016 - To spur significant innovation and growth in advanced manufacturing, as well as save over $100 billion annually, U.S. industry must rectify currently unmet needs for measurement science and proof-o
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 21, 2016 - NASA engineers installed a test version of a crucial piece of hardware for the Space Launch System rocket in a 65-foot-tall test stand Nov. 17 at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsvi
Paris (ESA) Nov 21, 2016 - ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky blasted into space this evening from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 20:20 GMT. Their Soyuz
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 21, 2016 - NASA and its international partners have updated the assignments for several crew rotations to the International Space Station in 2017. The changes reflect a switch in assignments for some NASA astr
Paris (ESA) Nov 21, 2016 - ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky docked with the International Space Station after a two-day flight in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft. T
Miami (AFP) Nov 21, 2016 - How does fire act in space? Researchers will soon find out by trying to ignite nine different materials aboard an unmanned spaceship on its way to a fiery re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, NASA said Monday.
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 21, 2016 - Arianespace's year-ending heavy-lift flight of 2016 from the Spaceport will orbit two passengers based on the SSL 1300 relay platform built by Space Systems Loral (SSL), with the second of these spa
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2016 - NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, will soon be studying Neptune's giant moon, Triton, and following-up on Hubble's recent sighting of water plumes on Jupiter's moon Eur
Beijing (XNA) Nov 21, 2016 - Samples from space material and plant growth experiments carried out on China's space lab Tiangong-2 are in good condition and have been delivered to scientists for further research, the Chinese Aca
