KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (FLORIDA): As first crewed lunar flight since 1972 is set to be launched on 6th February, NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) Rocket and Orion Spacecraft reached the Launch Pad after a 12-hour voyage from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) here on Saturday (17th Jan, 2026). Savants, at the helm of affairs, […]
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FLORIDA: NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who were supposed to stay onboard International Space Station (ISS) for a week in June 2024, returned to Earth after nine months on Tuesday (18th March, 2025) by means of SpaceX capsule that splashed down off the coast here. Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA’s Space Operations Mission […]
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On Noël (2024) eve, a Nasa spacecraft Parker Solar Probe (PSP) survived the closest-ever approach to the Sun. According to details Parker Solar Probe, that remained out of contact for many days, sent a signal while operating 6.1 million km away from the Sun, enduring high temperatures (1400C) and radiation. Although the spacecraft is protected […]
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FLORIDA: Dragon Capsule, launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral here on Saturday (28th Sept, 2024), harbouring NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, supplies and two empty seats (to be occupied by the stranded astronauts), is scheduled to dock with Int’l Space Station (ISS) on 29th Sept. at 21.30 GMT. Astronauts Butch Wilmore […]
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WASHINGTON: Four astronauts splashed down off Florida in the Gulf of Mexico on their return to Earth early Tuesday (12th March, 2024) following performing six months of vital experiments in space on board ISS. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft landed in the waters off Pensacola at 5:47am, with a Nasa thermal camera showing all four […]
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WASHINGTON: NASA has re-established contact with its tiny helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said Saturday, after an unexpected outage prompted fears that the hard-working craft had finally met its end. Ingenuity, a drone about 1.6 feet (0.5 meters) tall, arrived on Mars in 2021 aboard the rover Perseverance and became the first motorized […]
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