Astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins completed a spacewalk yesterday to fit a spare ammonia pump to the International Space Station (ISS). The new pump was successfully restarted by flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center last night and a…
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. – Two space station astronauts popped in a new pump during a rare Christmas Eve spacewalk Tuesday, eager to wrap up urgent repairs to a cooling system. It was the second spacewalk in four days for U.S.…
Two NASA spacewalkers started fixing the International Space Station’s cooling system more quickly than expected on Saturday, with no sign of the helmet-flooding problem that led NASA to outfit astronauts with snorkels for the first time. Astronauts Rick Mastracchio and…
The bone-dry desert of present-day Mars may seem like the last place you would look for water, but the Red Planet actually contains a wealth of water locked up in ice. Evidence that Mars once supported liquid water has been…
The entrepreneurs of new technologies like to flock together. Those behind “New Space” are no different. And the place they are clustering is the middle of a desert IT BEGAN with a boom. In 1947 Chuck Yeager, a pilot in…
People along the east coast of the United States should get a great opportunity to see a rocket launch from their own backyards this week. Weather permitting, observers from Massachusetts to the Carolinas could see an International Space Station-bound Cygnus…
European companies plan to ‘democratise’ access to space, with trials of technology to begin in 2020 A group of European space companies plans to offer “budget” trips to space tourists from Spain’s Canary Islands. Grégoire Loretan of Swiss Space…
The Government Accountability Office on Thursday rejected a protest from the Blue Origin space venture that has been holding back action on NASA’s plan to hand over control of its historic Launch Complex 39A to a commercial operator. The decision…
If you have ambitions of being one of the first people on Mars, listen up: A Dutch company says it is moving along with its plan to send four lucky Earthlings to colonize the Red Planet. The catch: They won’t…
A Chinese-Brazilian satellite launched by China on Monday failed to reached its planned orbit and likely fell back to Earth, Brazil’s Ministry of Science said. The satellite was the fourth in a series designed to monitor land use in Brazil,…