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NASA funds 400 bright ideas from small businesses
NASA says it’ll fund more than 400 ideas from small businesses, aimed at creating technologies ranging from plumbing fixtures suitable for the moon to AI-based medical assistants that can provide “an extra pair of trained eyes” for crews on Mars. … Continue reading
NASA makes plans for astronauts to go suborbital
NASA says it’ll formulate a plan to assess the safety of suborbital spacecraft — such as Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship or Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane — so that astronauts, researchers and other space agency personnel can be … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronauts, Blue Origin, NASA, Space, Suborbital Spaceflight, Virgin Galactic
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Virgin Galactic, NASA team up for orbital space trips
Virgin Galactic says it has signed an agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas to develop a new readiness program for private-sector astronauts heading to the International Space Station. Theoretically, such astronauts could include the likes of Tom Cruise, who is looking … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronauts, International Space Station, NASA, Space, Space Tourism, Virgin Galactic
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NASA gets set to put astronauts on suborbital flights
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signaled today that astronauts would soon be cleared to take suborbital spaceflights aboard the commercial rocket ships being tested by Virgin Galactic and by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture. “NASA is developing the process to fly astronauts … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Origin, Commercial Spaceflight, NASA, New Shepard, Space, Spaceflight, SpaceShipTwo, Suborbital Spaceflight, Virgin Galactic
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NASA’s new head of human spaceflight speaks out
NASA’s newly named associate administrator for human exploration and operations, Kathy Lueders, says that SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule “has been doing great” at the International Space Station — and that the NASA astronauts who rode it to orbit are likely to come … Continue reading
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Tagged Artemis, Dragon, International Space Station, Moon, NASA, Space, Spaceflight
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Mars rover carries monument to COVID-19 medics
When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands in Mars’ Jezero Crater next February, it’ll be carrying a tribute to the medical community and their work to quell the coronavirus pandemic. A 3-by-5-inch aluminum plaque, showing planet Earth being supported by the ancient staff-and-serpent symbol … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 rover, Coronavirus, Mars, NASA, Perseverance rover, Space
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Rocket Lab lofts satellites for NRO, NASA, Australia
Rocket Lab’s low-cost Electron rocket lofted a bevy of small satellites into orbit tonight for the National Reconnaissance Office, NASA and a project backed by the Australian government and the University of New South Wales Canberra Space. Get the news brief on … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, NASA, New Zealand, NRO, Rocket Lab, Satellites, Space
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Astrobotic will deliver VIPER rover to the moon
NASA has awarded a $199.5 million contract to Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon’s south pole in 2023, marking one more not-so-small step for the commercialization of lunar exploration. Get the news brief on GeekWire.
Boeing teams up with Varjo on Starliner VR
Boeing isn’t due to start flying NASA crews to the International Space Station until next year, but in the meantime, astronauts can steer a computer-generated Starliner space taxi with the aid of Varjo’s virtual-reality headsets. Get the news brief on … Continue reading
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Tagged Boeing, Commercial Spaceflight, NASA, Starliner, Varjo, Virtual Reality
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Tethers Unlimited to support sun-watching mission
Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it will provide key communications and propulsion capabilities to Southwest Research Institute in support of a NASA mission to study how the sun’s corona whips up the solar wind. Tethers Unlimited’s SWIFT-XTS software-defined radio will be used for telemetry … Continue reading
