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NASA Leadership Assessing Mission Impacts of...
To protect the health and safety of the NASA workforce as the nation responds to coronavirus (COVID-19), agency leadership recently completed the first assessment of work underway...
News SciencesMarch 20, 2020 -
X-Cubesat and Spacecube successfully launched...
The launch of both nanosatellites is a success, for research and education.
News Other fieldMay 19, 2017 -
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet to fly to ISS in...
Geneviève Fioraso, France’s Minister for Higher Education and Research, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), and CNES President Jean-Yves Le...
News Other field InstitutionalJanuary 15, 2014 -
DECLIC clocks up one year in orbit
The DECLIC mini-laboratory developed by CNES has been operating aboard the International Space Station for a year, letting scientists perform experiments remotely from Earth and...
News Sciences InstitutionalNovember 16, 2010 -
Organic matter would have a tough time on Mars
The UVolution photochemistry experiment has delivered its 1st results. Certain organic molecules would be degraded by the Sun’s UV rays in space.
News Sciences InstitutionalAugust 2, 2010 -
DECLIC set to show matter as never before
The DECLIC mini-laboratory developed by CNES is scheduled to reach the International Space Station on 25 August, carrying a full set of equipment to study transparent materials...
News Sciences InstitutionalAugust 31, 2009 -
Unsettling time for AMINO in space
The AMINO exobiology experiment supported by CNES was scheduled to be installed on the Russian module of the ISS on 23 December, but the EVA astronauts doing the job had to back-...
News Sciences InstitutionalJanuary 14, 2009 -
AMINO to probe the origins of life
The 3rd exobiology experiment devised by the LISA laboratory in Créteil, France, supported by CNES, lifted off on board a Russian Soyuz launcher on 26 November. Called AMINO, it...
News Sciences InstitutionalDecember 2, 2008 -
Long-duration ISS mission under the watchful eye...
Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Florida yesterday. European astronaut Thomas Reiter on board is en route to the International Space Station, where he will be spending 6 to...
News Sciences InstitutionalJune 22, 2006 -
Columbus enters home straight before ISS
The Columbus laboratory is one of Europe’s main contributions to the International Space Station. The European module recently completed integration at EADS ST and has now been...
News Other field InstitutionalMay 17, 2006