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Elon Musk-led SpaceX 'Polaris Dawn' featuring 1st commercial spacewalk mis
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
The launch of 'Polaris Dawn' mission initially scheduled to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre on Tuesday was delayed for August 28 due to a helium leak. The mission is now delayed again due to predictions of bad weather off the coast of Florida where the crew capsule will splash down i
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Helium leak postpones Elon Musk-led SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission featurin
Updated : 1 year, 8 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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Boeing Starliner with Sunita Williams onboard could wait months in space b
Updated : 1 year, 10 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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Sunita Williams breaks into jig onboard Space Station after arrival on NAS
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The Starliner had docked with the ISS at 1:34 pm (EDT) after lifting off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday and the two NASA astronauts entered the International Space Station at 3:45 pm EDT on Thursday (which translates to IST on Friday morning).
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Boeing's Starliner crewed test flight to space with Sunita Willams onboard
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Williams and fellow NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore are assigned to fly Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on a Atlas 5 rocket of the rocket company United Launch Alliance (ULA) from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to the International Space Station (ISS).
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