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NASA reschedules Ingenuity first flight
WASHINGTON — NASA now plans to attempt a first flight of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity early April 1...
Mars Ingenuity flight scheduled for Monday, NASA says...
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 17, 2021
NASA has announced that it is targeting Monday for the first flig...
NASA astronaut, cosmonauts, land back on Earth from...
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 17, 2021
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikio...
NASA's Mars copter flight could happen as soon...
Washington (AFP) April 17, 2021
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could make its first flight over ...
New Horizons reaches a rare space milestone
Laurel MD (SPX) Apr 16, 2021
In the weeks following its launch in early 2006, when NASA's New Hori...
Two paths to first flight on Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 16, 2021
April 16, on the 154th anniversary of Wilbur Wright's birth, the In...
China upgrades ground system for first-generation relay satellites...
Beijing (XNA) Apr 16, 2021
China has completed an upgrade of the ground system for its first-gener...
Space agencies plan to launch Mars sample return...
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 16, 2021
NASA plans to launch its next mission to Mars in 2026 to pick up ...
Elon Musk's SpaceX wins $2.9B contract to build...
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 16, 2021
Elon Musk's SpaceX has won a $2.9 billion contract to develop the...
Osiris-Rex leaves its mark on Asteroid Bennu
Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 16, 2021
Like boot prints on the Moon, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft left its m...
NASA SpaceX Crew-2 'Go' for April 22 Launch...
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 16, 2021
The Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for NASA's SpaceX Cre...
NASA adds Vulcan Centaur to launch services program...
Centennial CO (SPX) Apr 16, 2021
NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP) has added United Launch Alli...
Crew 2 arrive in Florida; NASA completes launch...
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 16, 2021
Four astronauts arrived in Florida on Friday for their mission to ...
DARPA awards 3 deals for work on nuclear...
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 15, 2021
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded three contr...
Two Russian cosmonauts, NASA astronaut return from ISS...
Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 17, 2021
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut touched down S...
NASA chooses SpaceX to take humans back to...
Washington DC (AFP) Apr 17, 2021
NASA has selected SpaceX to land the first astronauts on the surf...
NASA selects SpaceX to develop crewed lunar lander...
WASHINGTON — NASA has selected SpaceX as the sole company to win a contract to develop and demonstra...
Larger late-stage deals dominating space investment landscape
TAMPA, Fla. — Private investors deployed another $1.9 billion in SpaceX, OneWeb and other space infr...
SpaceX's next crew arrives in Florida for Earth...
SpaceX Crew 2 member Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide waves after a n...
Analysts: China’s space programs are a security concern...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community in a report listed China’s space program as a top secur...
White House nominates Melroy to be NASA deputy...
WASHINGTON — The White House announced April 16 it will nominate former astronaut Pam Melroy to be N...
Astronaut selection: tips from Thomas
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In 2008, Thomas Pesquet applied to become an ESA astronaut. On 22 April 20...
Week in images: 12 - 16 April 2021...
Week in images: 12 - 16 April 2021
Discover our week through the lens
NASA rocket to survey the solar system's windshield...
An illustration of the heliosphere being pelted with cosmic rays from outside our solar system. C...
Astronauts need a fridge
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 15, 2021
For astronauts to go on long missions to the moon or Mars, th...
Fast-spinning black holes narrow the search for dark...
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2021
Ultralight bosons are hypothetical particles whose mass is predicted ...
New Tactical ISR Satellites Provide Global, Persistent Support...
Littleton CO (SPX) Apr 14, 2021
Lockheed Martin is addressing the accelerating demand for space-en...
China to launch a pair of spacecraft towards...
HELSINKI — China is developing a mission to send a pair of spacecraft to study the far reaches of th...
NASA approves plans for Crew-2 launch
WASHINGTON — NASA managers approved plans to launch a SpaceX commercial crew mission to the Internat...
La Soufrière volcano: before-and-after
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False-colour images captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 show the aftermath of the explosiv...
Earth from Space: Space Coast, Florida
On 22 April 2021, on Earth Day, Thomas Pesquet is planned to return to the International Space Stati...
SpaceX, NASA give 'go' for astronaut launch, 3rd...
This undated photo made available by SpaceX in April 2021 shows the crew for its third astronaut ...
Science Marches on: International Space Station update
The first quarter of 2021 flew by almost as fast as the International Space Station itself. Get up t...
NASA delays starting contract with SpaceX for Gateway...
WASHINGTON — More than a year after selecting SpaceX to deliver cargo to the lunar Gateway, NASA has...