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THE DAY IN PHOTOS: April 6, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 07 12:53 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Soyuz MS-16 set for launch amid COVID-19 pandemic

Handout, Russian space agency Roscosmos via Reuters
Posted at Apr 06 04:43 PM

The Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft for the next International Space Station (ISS) crew, formed of Chris Cassidy of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, is prepared on Monday amid new constraints due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ahead of its upcoming launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The mission is set to launch on April 9, 2020 at 04:05 EDT (08:05 UTC) from Site 31/6 at the cosmodrome and will mark the first time the Soyuz 2.1a rocket will be used to launch people.  Read more »

SpaceX announces partnership to send tourists to ISS

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 06 07:48 AM

SpaceX on Thursday announced a partnership to send three tourists to the International Space Station (ISS), the first private trip in more than a decade. Read more »

Eyeing combat in outer space, US creates Pentagon Space Force

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 21 05:18 PM

The Space Command will focus on warfighting -- akin to the Pentagon's regional commands like CentCom -- while the Space Force will encompass broader missions like training, procurement, long-term planning and other functions. Read more »

Virgin Galactic becomes first space tourism company to land on Wall Street

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 29 09:00 AM

Founder Richard Branson appeared on the floor of the NYSE to ring a bell marking the beginning of trading, as fireworks jetted behind him. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: October 18, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 19 12:28 AM

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Per aspera ad astra

NASA via Reuters
Updated as of Oct 19 12:19 AM

In this still image taken from a NASA video, Jessica Meir walks outside the International Space Station on Friday to replace a broken power controller. Read more »

'One big step' for PH innovators: How rocket launch inspires NASA challenge winners

Anjo Bagaoisan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 10 06:40 PM

For the first Filipino winners of the space apps challenge of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), witnessing a rocket launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was another milestone in their journey that began at a Manila hackathon in October 2018.    Read more »

Pagkabit ng internet sa kalawakan inakalang alien invasion, UFO

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 25 08:53 PM

Inakala ng ilang taga-Netherlands na namumurong alien invasion ang paglalagay ng satellite na layong malagyan ng internet ang kalawakan. Read more »

Grapes on Mars? Georgia winemakers aiming high

Irakli Matreveli, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 09 11:46 AM

While it might seem like the stuff of science fiction, the idea of humans quaffing wine on the fourth planet from the Sun is coming closer to reality. Read more »

China warns US against ‘weaponizing’ space

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 19 07:00 PM

China is opposing the "weaponization" of space as it criticized Trump's orders to create a new command center for controlling military space operations. Read more »

In a surprise, first alien moon discovered is big and gaseous

Will Dunham, Reuters
Posted at Oct 04 03:58 AM

The exomoon is a large gaseous world the size of Neptune that is unlike any other known moon and orbits a gas planet much more massive than Jupiter. Read more »

For first time in decades, astronaut quits NASA training

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 29 11:05 AM

For the first time in 5 decades, a NASA astronaut candidate has resigned from training, the US space agency said Tuesday. Read more »

Alien life in our Solar System? Study hints at Saturn's moon

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 28 08:00 AM

Humanity may need look no further than our own Solar System in the search for alien life, researchers probing one of Saturn's moons said Tuesday.    Read more »

NASA plans new rover for Mars 2020 mission

Reuters
Posted at Nov 29 12:38 PM

NASA's next mission to Mars in 2020 will feature a souped-up unmanned rover vehicle to search for signs of ancient microbial life in areas of the uninhabitable red planet. Read more »

US spacecraft readies for fiery plunge into Saturn after 13-year mission

Ian Simpson, Reuters
Posted at Aug 30 07:41 AM

The US space agency's Cassini spacecraft will end its 13-year mission to Saturn in mid-September by transmitting data until the final moment before it plunges into the ringed planet's atmosphere, officials said on Tuesday.  Read more »