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SpaceX prepares for Starliner return in Feb, sends 2 astronauts to ISS
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
SpaceX launched a reduced two-man crew to the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, carrying supplies and two empty seats for Starliner astronauts awaiting a return home in February after an unplanned eight-and-a-half-month stay in orbit, CBS News reported.
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"India is not far from sending astronauts to moon": Indian scientists comm
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Responding to the Union cabinet's nod to India's fourth lunar mission, the Indian scientific community said that the country is not far from sending a 'cosmonaut' to the moon.
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Sunita Williams terms space her "happy place"; NASA astronauts eager to vo
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Both the astronauts will remain on the international space station as part of the Expedition 71/72 crew and return home in February 2025 aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members on NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission.
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Boeing's Starliner on its way back to Earth without NASA astronauts Sunita
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Boeing on Saturday morning said that the deorbit poll of the empty Starliner spacecraft has been completed and the landing phase will take 44 minutes from deorbit burn to landing. "It's time to bring Calypso home," Sunita Williams radioed flight controllers before Starliner's return to Ea
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Helium leak postpones Elon Musk-led SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission featurin
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
"Next launch opportunity is no earlier than Wednesday, August 28," SpaceX said. Polaris Dawn is the first of three planned missions in the Polaris Program, a human-spaceflight project funded and organized by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman. it features a spacewalk that has till now o
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Astronauts Butch Wilmore, Sunita Williams to remain in space till February
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Wilmore and Williams will continue their work formally as part of the expedition and will return only in February 25. This means what would have been a week-long test flight will now extend to around 8 months.
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NASA aims to unblock space station congestion as Sunita Williams remain st
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
One of the most pressing issues involves Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which is currently docked at the ISS with two NASA astronauts on board. Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on an extended mission due to technical problems with Starliner's propulsion system, are expected t
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NASA astronauts play "Out-of-the-world" Olympic sports
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
In a video, the NASA astronauts say that they "had a blast" while they pretend to be Olympic athletes
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"India has been very successful in space sector in last 20 yrs": Former NA
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Meanwhile, NASA will have a hand in training two Indian astronauts, one of whom will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) late this year. ISRO chairman S Somanath had earlier said that ISRO will likely select four astronauts for training.
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Stuck in space, NASA astronauts confident of Boeing capsule's safe Earth r
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
"I have a real good feeling in my heart that the spacecraft will bring us home, no problem," Williams told reporters from the ISS.
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Boeing Starliner with Sunita Williams onboard could wait months in space b
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Officials have repeatedly hinted that the Starliner, which faced issues with helium leaks and thruster outages heading to the International Space Station in early June, will be safe to bring astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore home.
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No planned date to return to Earth for two NASA astronauts due to issues w
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The two NASA astronauts were scheduled to return on June 14. However, the pair has no set date to return to Earth as their return has been delayed multiple times.
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