Sunita Williams set to return to Earth tomorrow
New York, March 17 : With the pair of US astronauts stranded for more than nine months on the International Space Station (ISS), the National Aeronautics...
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Sunita Williams dances her way to international space station
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Washington, June 7 (IANS) Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams danced her way to the International Space Station (ISS) in the early hours on Friday, as...
NASA, Boeing gives green signal to Starliner’s 1st astronaut launch on June 1
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New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) After several delays, NASA, and Boeing on Thursday gave a green signal to Starliner’s maiden flight that will carry humans...
NASA to track climate change amid rising global temperatures
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New York, July 22 (IANS) Even as global temperatures are reaching record highs, US space agency NASA aims to keep a track and find possible...
NASA, ESA congratulate India on Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft
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New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The US space agency NASA and European Space agency (ESA) on Friday lauded India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft that was successfully launched...
NASA gets 3 electric vans to shuttle Artemis crew to launchpad
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Washington, July 13 (IANS) NASA has received three fully electric and environment friendly crew transportation vans that will take Artemis crews on the final Earth-bound...
NYT hails India’s space startups’ journey under PM Modi
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New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) With at least 140 registered space-tech startups, India stands to transform the planet’s connection to the final frontier, says The...
NASA calls off all-electric aircraft flight plan over safety concerns
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Washington, June 29 (IANS) NASA has called off its plan to fly X-57, the experimental electric aircraft, after discovering an anomaly in its propulsion system...
NASA & ISRO collaborate to establish International Space Station by 2024: Sitharaman
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New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said that scientists of US’ NASA and ISRO would collaborate to establish an...
US to train and fly Indian astronauts to International Space Station in 2024
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Chennai, June 23 (IANS) After Russia in 1984, it is now the US to fly Indian astronauts to space. But this time the US will fly...
New AI model by IBM-NASA to help track Earth’s climate change
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New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Tech major IBM has partnered with US space agency NASA to design a new geospatial foundation model to track climate change...
Indian-origin robotics engineer to head NASA’s new Moon to Mars office
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Washington, April 01 (IANS) Indian-origin software and robotics engineer, Amit Kshatriya has been appointed as first head of NASA’s new Moon to Mars Programme Office at...
IBM, NASA join hands to research impact of climate change with AI
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New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Tech major IBM and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center have announced a collaboration to use IBM’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology to...
Sea levels to rise 10-12 inches by 2050, rate alarming: Report
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Sea levels along US coastlines will rise between 10 to 12 inches (25 to 30 cm) on average above the current levels by 2050, according...
NASA, SpaceX postpone historic astronauts launch
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Washington, May 28 (IANS) NASA and SpaceX postponed historic launch of two astronauts to space from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday due to...
India to launch Cartosat-3, 13 nanosatellites from US
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Chennai, Nov 19 India will launch its cartography satellite Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nanosatellites into sun synchronous orbit on November 25, the Indian space agency...
NASA’s Mars Odyssey probe captures first image of moon Phobos
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Washington, Oct 9 After orbitting the Red Planet for 16 years, NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has captured its first images of the Martian moon Phobos....
NASA’s asteroid-bound spacecraft imaged from Earth
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Washington, Sep 9 As NASA’s asteroid-bound spacecraft OSIRIS-REx approaches Earth for its September 22 gravity assist, a ground-based telescope has captured images of the spacecraft....