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DSI Technology Used to Study Mice in Russian Space Mission St. Paul, MN (PRWEB) May 14, 2013 Data Sciences International (DSI) has taken part in an exciting study involving its products traveling to space. DSI was approached nearly four years ago by a European researcher working in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the Russian Space Agency on a study measuring the effects space travel has on the physiology of animals. On April 19th, a Russian space mission called Bion-M...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online NASA signed another contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) to continue using its services for transporting crew to and from the International Space Station (ISS). The move is a reminder of how the US still has no transportation to space from its own soil ever since retiring the space shuttle program back in 2011. The $424 million addition to the contract extends services for Russian transportation through June...

WASHINGTON, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has signed a $424 million modification to its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for full crew transportation services to the International Space Station in 2016 with return and rescue services extending through June 2017. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) NASA is facilitating development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability with the goal of achieving...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Progress cargo carrier that launched yesterday to resupply astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) may now be lost in space. The Russian spaceship carrying 2.5 tons of cargo may fail to properly dock with the orbiting laboratory after its navigation antenna failed to deploy properly. "Once in orbit, an antenna used as a navigational aid on the Progress did not deploy. Russian ground controllers are assessing a...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online The target date for the first manned spaceflight launch at Russia’s planned Vostochny Cosmodrome will be sometime in 2018, President Vladimir Putin told astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday. Speaking with Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) station crewmembers via video conference from the building site, Putin said that the new launch pad will help the one-time space exploration pioneer to...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Astronauts launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:43 a.m. Baikonur time Friday morning on their way towards the International Space Station (ISS). The three new crew members blasted off aboard the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)  Soyuz spacecraft. Chris Cassidy of NASA and Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos docked with the station just six hours later, becoming the three new crew members of...

H.S. Sophomore Credits Public School STEM Education for Inspiring Her Dream to Be First Astronaut on Mars MINNEAPOLIS, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --High School Sophomore and Astronaut-in-Training, Abigail Harrison, will be the only American teenager in attendance at the legendary Russian Soyuz launch, Soyuz-TMA-09M, in Kazakhstan on May 28, 2013. As a special VIP guest of her mentor, Italian Astronaut Luca Parmitano, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Harrison is a pinnacle...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Following a brief weather-related delay, three members of the Expedition 34 crew have successfully returned to Earth, NASA officials announced late Friday night. International Space Station (ISS) commander Kevin Ford of NASA and Commander Evgeny Tarelkin and Flight Engineer Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) landed at an airfield northeast of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 10:10pm CDT Friday night (9:10am...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian federal space agency (Roscosmos) have finally signed a formal agreement to work together on the ExoMars program to determine whether life ever existed on Mars. Under the partnership, ESA agreed to provide the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) in 2016 as well as the carrier and rover in 2018. Roscosmos agreed to be responsible for the 2018...

NASA and its international partners have named several future International Space Station expedition crews. They include NASA astronauts Steve Swanson, Reid Wiseman, Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts. Swanson was born in Syracuse, N.Y., but considers Steamboat Springs, Colo., his hometown. Wiseman is from Baltimore and is a commander in the U.S. Navy. Wilmore, a captain in the U.S. Navy, is from Mount Juliet, Tenn. Virts, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, was born in Baltimore, but considers...