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After nearly a year in space, Scott Kelly craves human contact
Feb 26, 2016 (AFP)
After nearly a year in space, US astronaut Scott Kelly craves the simple pleasures of human contact, a shower, and a splash in a swimming pool. Kelly and his Ru...
Scott Kelly returns to earth, but science for NASA's journey to Mars continues
Feb 24, 2016 (SPX)
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly paved the way for future missions when he embarked on a one-year mission in space along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. Kel...
Orbital ATK Completes OA-4 Cargo Delivery Mission to ISS for NASA
Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)
Orbital ATK completed its fourth cargo delivery mission (OA-4) to the International Space Station (ISS), including the initial demonstration flight and three op...
Send your computer code into space with astronaut Tim Peake
Feb 22, 2016 (SPX)
The UK Space Agency, ESA, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have announced a second competition for UK school children to write code that will fly with Tim Peake ...
Black Mold Found in Cargo Prepared for ISS, Resupply Mission Delayed
Feb 12, 2016 (Sputnik)
The fifth Orbital ATK resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is being delayed by over a week as NASA is trying to pinpoint the source of blac...
Putting the Public in the Shoes of Space Station Science
Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)
When visitors to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, sign up for a bus tour of the nearby NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, one of the hig...
Russia to Deliver Three Advanced Spacesuits to ISS in 2016
Feb 05, 2016 (Sputnik)
Three new advanced Russian Orlan-MKS spacesuits will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of 2016, the head of the Russian segment o...
Russian spacewalk marks end of ESA's exposed space chemistry
Feb 04, 2016 (ESA)
ESA's Expose facility was retrieved from outside the International Space Station by cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Sergei Volkov, who were completing a spacewa...
Russians spacewalk to retrieve biological samples
Feb 03, 2016 (UPI)
Two Russians cosmonauts went on a spacewalk Wednesday to retrieve and replace biological samples from outside the International Space Station. Cosmonauts Yuri M...
New Tool Provides Successful Visual Inspection of ISS Robot Arm
Feb 01, 2016 (SPX)
Gas station attendant, electronics installer, home inspector: is there any fix-it job that NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) can't tackle during its four-y...
Russian Cosmonauts to Attach Thermal Insulation to ISS
Jan 26, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russian cosmonauts will undertake a spacewalk on February 3 to get some practice fixing screen-vacuum thermal insulation onto the exterior of the International ...
Astronaut Scott Kelly plays ping pong with water
Jan 23, 2016 (UPI)
United States astronaut Scott Kelly had fun with gravity as he demonstrated how to play ping pong with water on the International Space Station. Kelly shared a ...
Japanese astronaut learned Russian to link two nations
Jan 19, 2016 (Sputnik)
Kimiya Yui, a Japanese astronaut and a retired Lieutenant-Colonel in the Japan Air Self-Defense Force said he had learned the Russian language to serve as a lin...
NASA, Texas Instruments Launch mISSion imaginaTIon
Jan 18, 2016 (SPX)
Today's students are the engineers and scientists of the future, so NASA and Texas Instruments (TI) are teaming up and using the one-year International Space St...
Water in US astronaut's helmet cuts short Briton's 1st spacewalk
Jan 15, 2016 (AFP)
The discovery of water in a US astronaut's helmet brought an early end Friday to the first ever galactic walkabout by his British colleague, astronaut Tim Peake...
Roscosmos prepares to launch first manned Soyuz MS
Jan 15, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russian Roscosmos state corporation announced in a statement Thursday the start of preparations to the launch of Soyuz-FG carrier rocket from the Baikonur space...
ISS Science Rockets Into 2016
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
he crew of the International Space Station kicked off the new year with science investigations in to aging of human skin and how fabrics burn in space, both of ...
Long haul, night repairs for British, US spacewalkers
Jan 12, 2016 (AFP)
The first-ever spacewalk on Friday for British astronaut Tim Peake will require a long journey outside the space station to replace a failed power unit while un...
British astronaut's first spacewalk set for Jan 15
Jan 05, 2016 (AFP)
Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, is poised to embark on his first spacewalk January 15, global space agencie...
NASA Delivers New Video Experience On ISS
Dec 29, 2015 (SPX)
NASA is partnering with Harmonic, a worldwide leader in video delivery based in San Jose, California, to bring you the experience of riding a rocket to space or...
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