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Space station mishap prompts NASA to postpone launch of Boeing Starliner
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday postponed a planned launch of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner capsule to the International Space Station after the orbiting outpost was briefly thrown out of co...
Jul 29, 2021
Russia’s Nauka space module experiences problem after docking with ISS – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) informed mission control in Moscow on Thursday about a problem with the new Russian Nauka module after it docked at t...
Jul 29, 2021
Russia’s new Nauka space module set to dock with ISS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will enhance its capabilities at the International Space Station when the Nauka module, set to serve as a research lab, storage unit and airlock, docks later on Thursday, fol...
Jul 29, 2021
Sponge-like Canadian fossils may be earliest sign of animal life
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils found in rugged mountainous terrain in Canada's Northwest Territories may give a glimpse at the humble dawn of animal life on Earth - sea sponges that inh...
Jul 28, 2021
Bezos offers NASA $2 billion in exchange for moon mission contract
By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Fresh off his trip to space, billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos on Monday offered to cover up to $2 billion in NASA costs if the U.S. space agency awards his com...
Jul 26, 2021
Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
By Yiming Woo PARIS (Reuters) - "Robot, stand up" - Oscar Constanza, 16, gives the order and slowly but surely a large frame strapped to his body lifts him up and he starts walking. Fastened to his sh...
Jul 26, 2021
SpaceX lands NASA launch contract for mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX was awarded a $178 million launch services contract for NASA's first mission focusing on Jupiter's icy moon Europa and...
Jul 23, 2021
Former Virgin Galactic CEO to fly to space – CNBC
(Reuters) - Former chief executive officer of Virgin Galactic Holdings, George Whitesides, will fly to space on the aerospace company's next test spaceflight, CNBC reported on Friday. Richard Branson,...
Jul 23, 2021
Dutch teen on space flight told Bezos he had never ordered from Amazon
By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch teenager who became the world's youngest space traveller this week surprised billionaire Jeff Bezos on the flight by telling him he'd never ordered a...
Jul 23, 2021
Modern crocodile’s ‘grandfather,’ 150 million years old, discovered in Chile fossil
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A 150-million-year-old fossilized skeleton discovered in the mountains of southern Chile was determined to be the ancestor of the modern crocodile, the Argentine Museum of Nat...
Jul 23, 2021
