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Sunita Williams breaks into jig onboard Space Station after arrival on NAS
Updated : 1 year, 9 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 : 1 year, 9 months 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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UAE astronauts Al Matrooshi, Al Mulla graduate from NASA training programm
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) today announced the graduation of Emirati astronauts NoraAl Matrooshi and Mohammad Al Mulla from the 2021 NASA Astronaut Candidate Class training programme in a ceremony held at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA.
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NASA astronauts lose tool bag during first spacewalk
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
As NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara marked their first spacewalk on November 1, an unfortunate incident occurred with their tool bag being lost. The bag is currently floating in space and will continue to do so over the next few months until it disintegrates in the Earth's at
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NASA launches 6th crewed mission of Elon Musk company SpaceX to ISS
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The crew - including two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut, and an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates- are expected to reach the ISS outpost early Friday to begin a six-month stay,
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NASA astronauts successfully install new roll-out solar array on space sta
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Spacewalkers, on Sunday, have successfully installed Roll-Out Solar Array on the starboard truss structure of the space station.
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Russia to withdraw from International Space Station
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 26 (ANI): Russian state-run space agency Roscosmos has said that it will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024 to focus on building its own orbital outpost, media reports said.
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Record-setting NASA astronaut, crewmates return to Earth from space statio
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 30 (ANI): After extending the record for the longest single spaceflight in history by an American to 355 days, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth on Wednesday, March 30, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov.
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US mission congratulates Indian origin physician for getting into NASA's C
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 8 (ANI): The United States mission in India on Wednesday congratulated Indian origin physician Dr Anil Menon for getting selected for NASA's 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class.
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Indian origin physician Anil Menon among 10 new NASA astronaut recruits
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 7 (ANI): Indian-origin doctor Anil Menon has been selected along with nine others to be astronauts for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s future space missions, the US agency has announced.
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Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins passes away at 90
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 29 (ANI): Michael Collins, the NASA astronaut who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, has died at age 90 after battling cancer.
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Russia's Soyuz rocket placed into orbit with 3 astronauts on board
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], April 10 (ANI): Russia's Soyuz MS-18 Yu spacecraft carrying one NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts of the Russian space agency Roscosmos docked to the International Space Station (ISS) at 7:05 am Eastern Time Zone (EDT) while both spacecraft were flying about 262 miles above
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