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NASA astronaut receives heart warming welcome after spending 11 months in
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 15 (ANI): NASA spacewoman Christina Koch -- who touched down on earth after completing a record-breaking stay of 328 days on the International Space Station -- was welcomed home by her pet dog in the most endearing and affectionate manner one could possibly imagine
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Just a single grain of moon dust can help understand its soil chemistry
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 7 (ANI): Since NASA's last trip to the moon in 1972 there has not been another visit to the lunar surface and with no future visit planned yet, every bit of soil brought back by astronauts is exemplary and precious.
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NASA astronaut Christina Koch returns Earth after record-setting spaceflig
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington, D.C [USA], Feb 6 (ANI): NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth after setting a record for the longest single spaceflight in history by a woman.
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Vyommitra - ISRO's half humanoid to go as trial to space before Gaganyaan
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 23 (ANI): 'Vyommitra' - the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) half humanoid to go as a trial to space before 'Gaganyaan' goes with astronauts.
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Four short-listed astronauts to go for Gaganyaan training in Russia by thi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Jan 22 (ANI): ISRO chief K Sivan on Wednesday said that four astronauts have been short-listed for the Gaganyaan mission who will go to Russia for training by the end of this month.
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ESA builds prototype plant that churns moondust to produce oxygen
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Paris [France], Jan 20 (ANI): The European Space Agency (ESA) has built a new oxygen plant that could help lunar astronauts produce breathable air in the low gravity region.
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'Ready and looking forward' to training Indian astronauts: Russia
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 17 (ANI): Russia is "ready and looking forward" to training a team of Indian astronauts for the Gaganyaan mission, Moscow diplomat Roman Babushkin said on Friday.
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Astronauts for manned Moon and Mars missions graduate from NASA training p
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Texas [USA], Jan 11 (ANI): The first batch of NASA astronauts eligible for spaceflight to the Moon and beyond recently graduated from their 2-year long training course.
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This 8K VR headset is meant for NASA astronauts
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Las Vegas [USA], Jan 7 (ANI): Who needs Virtual Reality (VR) more than space engineers? At the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020, VRgineers introduced its new XTAL VR headset that boasts a whopping 8K resolution.
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Gaganyan astronauts to have Indian food during space mission
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Mysore (Karnataka) [India], Jan 7 (ANI): The Defence Food Research Laboratory in Mysore on Tuesday said that it has prepared special desi food items for the Indian astronauts scheduled to go into the Space in Mission 'Gaganyan'.
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Four astronauts selected to undergo training in Russia for Gaganyaan missi
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Jan 1 (ANI): This year is going to be an eventful year for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said ISRO chairman Dr K Sivan on Wednesday, adding that four astronauts have been selected to undergo training in Russia for the Gaganyaan mission.
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'Soyuz Fall 2020, Spring 2021 missions to ISS comprises all-Russian crew'
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Nov 19 (Sputnik/ANI): Foreign astronauts are not part of the planned Soyuz crew set to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2020 and in the spring of 2021, data published by Russia's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre has revealed.
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