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Applying tech being used on the ISS toward a future mission to Mars

Voyager Space has entered into an agreement with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to help develop an airlock for the Mars Transit Vehicle.

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ISS Laboratory looking to spark more in-space production with grant opportunity

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A joint business venture to help maintain national security in space

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A major milestone for developing a new spacesuit

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Experienced hand takes helm at big NASA center, meet Joseph Pelfrey

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The ISS is long overdue for new wardrobe options

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Edge computing enables DNA sequencing, lower risk of contaminants on International Space Station

In this image made from video supplied by NASA, SpaceX Dragon space capsule is lifted out of the water after splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico early Friday, May 6, 2022. NASA’s Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, and the European Space Agency’s Matthias Maurer undocked from the International Space Station less than 24 hours earlier. (NASA via AP)

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A NASA trailblazer finds herself on a new trajectory

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NASA plows ahead on program to ensure nutrition for astronauts headed to Mars

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NASA's future plans with and without the ISS

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It's getting awfully crowded up in the low-Earth orbit area

FILE - In this Friday, July 8, 2011 file photo, the space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis was the 135th and last space shuttle launch for NASA. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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Who gets to manage traffic in space?

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Insight by Leidos Where Space Station goes, so goes Leidos

A NASA specialist helps U.S. astronaut Scott Tingle shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-07 space capsule about 150 km (80 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, June 3, 2018. A Soyuz space capsule with Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, U.S. astronaut Scott Tingle and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai, returning from a mission to the International Space Station landed safely on Sunday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, pool)

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Astronaut foresees coming boost in NASA interest

In this image from video made available by NASA, astronaut Drew Feustel prepares to close a door to an atmospheric experiment during a space walk outside the International Space Station on Thursday, June 14, 2018. (NASA via AP)

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NASA's impending dilemma: Fund the ISS, or new deep space missions?

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2007 file photo by Associated Press photojournalist Alan Diaz, the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Diaz, whose photo of the terrified 6-year-old Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalez earned him the Pulitzer Prize, died Tuesday, July 3, 2018, his daughter Aillette Rodriguez-Diaz said. He was 71. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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NASA adapting to, benefiting from more crowded spaceflight industry

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#FedFeed - NASA unveils new spacesuit

This still image taken from video provided by NASA shows U.S. astronaut Shane Kimbrough, left and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet during a space walk outside the International Space Station, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. The astronauts are taking another spacewalk to plug in new and better batteries outside the space station. It's the same type of job conducted last Friday. Pesquet is the first French spacewalker in 15 years. (NASA via AP)

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#FedFeed - NASA livestreams spacewalk

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#FedFeed - Message from space and a happy homecoming

This photo provided by NASA TV shows the Cygnus resupply ship, above, slowly approaching the International Space Station before the Canadarm2 reaches out and grapples it, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016. Once the Cygnus is unloaded, it will be filled with trash and set loose to burn up in the atmosphere in mid-November. (NASA TV via AP)

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#FedFeed - Take a video tour of the International Space Station

The Orbital ATK Antares rocket is rolled from the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) to launch Pad-0A, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital ATK’s sixth contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver over 5,100 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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NASA rolls out Antares rocket at Virginia facility

Expedition 49 NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, left, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos answer questions from the press outside the Soyuz simulator ahead of their Soyuz qualification exams, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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NASA astronaut preps for next space station mission

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Russian spacecraft launches with NASA astronaut aboard