Washington, May 1 (IANS/RIA Novosti) NASA will pay an additional $424 million to extend its contract with Russia's federal space agency (Roscosmos) to transport US astronauts to and from the Internat... Read more
Washington, April 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Planned space adventures over the next few decades for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) read like a science fiction thriller with a ... Read more
Ideally, Astronauts want to return to Earth in fully functional space capsules, but sometimes things can go awry. That's why NASA is making a point of testing the Orion spacecraft's parachute deployme... Read more
NASA has been relying on the Russians to get astronauts to the International Space Station since the shuttle program was retired in 2011, and it looks like it will be doing so for at least a few years... Read more
Washington, Dec 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) NASA plans to help combat astronaut insomnia aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with a new lighting system.
NASA plans to replace the fluorescent bulb... Read more
Abu Dhabi, Dec 30 (IANS/WAM) The UAE's first all-female team of 24 aspiring engineers, researchers and astronauts, between the ages of 12 and 18, has completed an on-site space training at the NASA S... Read more
London, May 29 (PTI) NASA scientists have developed a new
test which they claim can spot osteoporosis bone loss at the
earliest stages of the painful disease.Currently, the condition can go undetect... Read more
Washington, Nov 9 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The re-election of US president Barack Obama could mean one small step back to the moon and a giant leap to landing astronauts on Mars and asteroids.
In 2010, th... Read more