Topic: Nasa
Russia's space agency voiced outrage Tuesday after the defence ministry refused one of its cosmonauts a celebrated state honour, in the first such snub in half a century of Soyuz flights. Cosmonaut Maxim Surayev, who returned to Earth in March after six ...
NASA and aerospace company ATK Aerospace Systems successfully tested Tuesday the most powerful solid-fuel rocket engine ever, even though its future in the space program remains in doubt. A huge roar and massive flames accompanied the two-minute "static" or non-flight test of ...
Chilean officials worked to launch a gruelling, four-month rescue operation to save 33 trapped miners, while keeping the men in the dark about how long they will have to wait for deliverance. Drilling of an escape tunnel through 700 meters (2,300 feet) ...
COPIAPO, Chile/CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Facing one of the most complex rescue operations ever attempted, Chile is looking to space and the ocean depths for survival tips to help 33 miners endure months underground awaiting rescue. The miners were found alive ...
'Fly Me to the Moon?' NASA asks public to pick astronaut wake-up music for last shuttle tripsNow's your chance to help pick astronauts' wake-up music. NASA is holding a first-of-its-kind contest to select some songs that will rouse the crews of the ...
Study: Astronauts are as weak as 80-year-olds after a 6-month flight; better workouts neededA new study shows that astronauts can become as weak as 80-year-olds after six months at the International Space Station. The research raises serious health concerns as NASA contemplates ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, proposed on Tuesday legislation that would introduce tax breaks for investments in commercial space ventures to offset job losses from the end of the U.S. space shuttle program. Florida, where ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A pair of spacewalking astronauts revived the International Space Station's cooling system on Monday during a third outing to replace a failed pump. Station flight engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson slipped outside the orbital complex ...
Astronauts from the International Space Station on Monday embarked on a third spacewalk to fix the orbiting station's busted cooling system, NASA said. Spacewalkers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson began their work on installing a spare ammonia pump module on the ...
Astronauts from the International Space Station on Wednesday removed a failed ammonia pump from the outside of the orbiting spaceship during a second spacewalk to fix the station's cooling system. "The work has gone extremely well today," NASA said after astronauts Doug ...
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