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Sunita Williams’ Piloted Starliner’s Debut Crew Launch To Space Pushed To June

May 23, 2024 admin

The Starliner spacecraft will be catapulted into space on a Atlas 5 rocket. Washington DC: US space agency NASA on Thursday announced that the first crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, piloted by Indian-origin Sunita Williams to the International Space Station (ISS), is now being targeted for June 1. Mission managers from NASA, Boeing, and…

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How Solar Storms Cause Colourful Auroras On Earth

May 12, 2024 admin

NASA said that because solar flares are light, they reach Earth in about 8 minutes. New Delhi: Auroras illuminated the skies across many regions on Saturday. This was the second time in a row on May 11 that auroras lit up the skies across swaths of the planet. This spectacular celestial show, which is usually…

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First crewed test flight of Boeing Starliner capsule with Sunita Williams targeted for May 17

May 8, 2024 admin

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams gets ready to board the Boeing’s Starliner capsule atop an Atlas V rocket for a mission to the International Space Station at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on May 6, 2024. The launch was called off. | Photo Credit: AP The target date for the next attempt to launch Boeing…

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Why is NASA allotting a standard time for the moon?

May 7, 2024 admin

The story so far: In September 2025, NASA’s four-member Artemis crew is scheduled fly around the moon in preparation for the space agency’s mission to land on the moon again. To boost such scientific missions, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on April 2, directed its space agency, the National Aeronautics…

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Sunita Williams-piloted Boeing Starliner test flight postponed over Atlas rocket glitch

May 7, 2024 admin

The long-awaited first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft was called off for at least 24 hours over a technical glitch with the Atlas V rocket that was being readied to launch the new astronaut capsule to orbit on Monday night. The CST-100 Starliner’s inaugural voyage carrying astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS)…

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Astronaut Sunita Williams All Set For Her 3rd Space Mission. Details Here

April 24, 2024 admin

Sunita L. Williams is training to be the pilot of the Crew Flight Test mission aboard. Sunita L. Williams, a distinguished NASA astronaut, is currently training to be the pilot of the Crew Flight Test mission aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. This is the first crewed flight for that vehicle and her third mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In a…

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NASA Posts Pics Of Flooded UAE Areas After 6 Billion Cubic Metres Of Rain

April 22, 2024 admin

Last week’s rain were Dubai’s heaviest in the last 75 years. American space agency NASA has released photos of areas that were flooded in the UAE after last week’s torrential rain. NASA said it was a “slow-moving storm” system that brought so much rain into the Gulf states and dropped more than a year’s worth…

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NASA Head Bill Nelson Says China Hiding Military Presence In Space

April 18, 2024 admin

NASA Chief said he hoped “the Chinese space programme would come to its senses”. Washington: The chief of US space agency NASA has told lawmakers in Washington that China is using civilian programmes to hide military objectives in space. “China has made extraordinary strides [in space] especially in the last 10 years, but they are…

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ISRO’s ‘zero orbital debris’ milestone & the space debris crisis | Explained

April 8, 2024 admin

The story so far: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said its PSLV-C58/XPoSat mission has practically left zero debris in earth’s orbit. The space agency explained that the last stage of the Polar Satellite Launch vehicle (PSLV) used in the mission was transformed into a kind of orbital station — called the PSLV Orbital…

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What Scientists Hope To Learn From Total Solar Eclipse In US

March 28, 2024 admin

NASA is one of the institutions at the ready for the eclipse (Representational) When a rare total solar eclipse sweeps across North America on April 8, scientists will be able to gather invaluable data on everything from the Sun’s atmosphere to strange animal behaviors — and even possible effects on humans. It comes with the…

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