Washington DC (SPX) May 21, 2015 - NASA and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, known as America Makes, are holding a new $2.25 million competition to design and build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space explor
Moscow (Sputnik) May 21, 2015 - Over the last five years, there have been seven Proton carrier rocket failures. The latest took place on May 16, when a Proton-M was to deliver cargo to the ISS, but after reaching space lost its te
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 20, 2015 - Which of NASA's space-venturing creations would you like to see used on Earth? Are there ways to reinvent spacecraft technologies that could improve the lives of humans? Students across the country
New Orleans LA (SPX) May 20, 2015 - NASA began work May 13 on a major milestone in its preparation for testing the core stage of its new Space Launch System (SLS), beginning lifts of large structural steel sections onto the B-2 Test S
Paris (ESA) May 18, 2015 - It started with a simple question that ended with a surprising answer and new technology that is being used in cutting-edge heart surgery and could save millions of euros in hospital bills. Hanns-Ch
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) May 18, 2015 - Arianespace's upcoming mission to orbit two direct-to-home broadcast satellites from the Spaceport in French Guiana has made an important step closer to this month's liftoff with the integration of
Tustin CA (SPX) May 18, 2015 - Y.K. Bae Corporation announces their proprietary Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) has successfully accelerated a 450 gram (~1 lb.) spacecraft simulator with pure laser light for the first time in histo
Washington DC (SPX) May 17, 2015 - NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is one step closer to flight following Orbital ATK's March 11 successful five-segment rocket motor qualification ground test. Immediately following the spectacular t
Sendai, Japan (SPX) May 17, 2015 - A part of the performance degradation mechanism of the advanced, electrodeless, helicon plasma thruster with a magnetic nozzle, has been revealed by the research group of Dr. Kazunori Takahashi and
Washington (UPI) May 16, 2015 - After three years of waiting, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has finally been certified to fly medium-level NASA missions into space, reports said Saturday.
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 15, 2015 - NASA has a certain flare when it comes to safety on the launch pad. Those flares are called hydrogen burn-off igniters - which resemble celebratory sparklers - and were successfully used to mitiga
Paris (ESA) May 15, 2015 - ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's mission on the International Space Station has been extended until the beginning of June. It was planned to end this week with a return to Earth together with
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2015 - A NASA mission that embodies the virtues of faster, less expensive access to space has sailed past all major development milestones and is scheduled to be delivered to Cape Canaveral on time for its
Washington DC (SPX) May 15, 2015 - NASA and its international partners agreed Tuesday to set a new schedule for spacecraft traffic to and from the International Space Station. The partner agencies agreed to adjust the schedule
Beijing (XNA) May 15, 2015 - An Italian European Space Agency astronaut shows millions how to use the toilet on International Space Station (ISS) through a video uploaded lately in a popular social website. As astronaut S
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 14, 2015 - Engineers from three NASA field centers are partnering this month at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to remove and analyze some 180 small squares of an ablative material
