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Los Angeles: The first US private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has returned to Earth. The private astronaut mission returned to Earth on Monday. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the coast of Jacksonville, in the southeastern US state of Florida, at 1:06 p.m. Monday, SpaceX confirmed. The crew undocked from […]

By Pramod K Nayar Counter-balancing the fictional/fantastic account of Star Trek, the first major spacetravel saga on TV, were images from the moon, from spacecraft leaving the solar system and the ‘Blue Marble’ photograph. Now there is also a genre of travel writing from outer space — the astrojournal. Footprints beyond Earth The critic Mary […]

Los Angeles: The first US private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is set to undock from the ISS on Saturday and return to Earth on Sunday, according to NASA. The mission, codenamed Ax-1, was launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 8, Xinhua news […]

Hyderabad: It has always been interesting to see how our home state or city looks from space. Adding some more excitement to that, NASA recently released a picture of how the city lights of Hyderabad looked from the International Space Station. The city lights are bordered by Nehru Outer Ring Road – pictured as the […]

Moscow: Russia’s space agency chief has warned the US that the slew of sanctions imposed on Moscow can “destroy our cooperation” on the International Space Station (ISS) and asked Washington if it wants to threaten India and China with the “possibility of a 500-tonne structure falling” on them. Russia and the US are the major […]

Hyderabad: The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object to fly in outer space and can be seen when they fly above our cities, if the conditions are right. Fortunately, Hyderabad will be able to catch the glimpse of the ISS several times this month. Between February 8 and 19, the station will […]

The special coating not only cools the road but also “produces a cooler neighbourhood”.

In the video, the astronauts are seen adding the sauce and toppings on the pizza base.

This measurement established each astronaut's inherent sensitivity to radiation.

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA) posted a series of videos on Twitter over the weekend, showing some of the ISS astronauts performing their favourite games sans gravity.

The experiment, initiated by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, will cultivate 48 Hatch chile pepper seeds in an Advanced Plant Habitat (APH), a plant growth chamber which is about the size of a kitchen oven

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet in their eighth spacewalk of the year outside the ISS deployed the new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA)

The first mission will occur between fall of 2022 and mid-2023 and the second will occur between mid-2023 and the end of 2023.

Once the bird moves on at season's end, she'll rely on the backpack to beam frequent location data to the Argos satellite, then back to Williams's laptop, to track it.

Raja Chari, a man with Telugu roots, is gearing up to SpaceX Crew-3 Mission to ISS scheduled in October this year

China doesn’t have as much money behind it as the ISS and there are not as many countries involved.

The spacecraft, named Endeavour by the crew, lifted-off at 5.49.02 a.m. EDT from the Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said.

The Crew-2 with four astronauts on board, will lift-off at 6:11 a.m. EDT on April 22, from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Researchers from NASA, UoH suggest these strains could make it possible for astronauts to grow their own food in space stations

Its main construction was completed between 1998 and 2011, although the station continually evolves to include new missions and experiments. It has been continuously occupied since Nov. 2, 2000.