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Gujarat: Sunita Williams' home village celebrates her safe return to Earth
Updated : 12 months ago IST
This came after the successful splashdown of the Dragon spacecraft, bringing Sunita Williams back to Earth along with Crew-9 members Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. They had spent nearly nine months in space.
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NASA announces Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore's return date to Earth
Updated : 12 months ago IST
Williams and Wilmore are scheduled to travel back to Earth alongside Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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Stranded astronauts thank Musk, Trump for facilitating return; Sunita Will
Updated : 12 months ago IST
Wilmore and Williams have been stranded on the ISS for nine months after reaching there in June last year. They were supposed to stay there for about a week. The astronauts were transported from Earth to the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
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SpaceX Dragon docks with ISS to bring back stranded astronauts
Updated : 12 months ago IST
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov docked with International Space Station.
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SpaceX, NASA launch mission to bring back astronauts Sunita Williams, Butc
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The lift-off took place at 7:03 ET on Friday, with a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-10 mission.
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NASA's Athena to land on Moon's south pole today
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Athena, the moon lander developed by Houston-based private company Intuitive Machines, will attempt to land near the Mons Mouton landing site on the moon's South Pole. The site is distinct from the 'Shiv Shakti' touchdown site of ISRO's Chandrayaan- 3 spacecraft, which marked a significant m
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SpaceX postpones eighth test of Starship rocket after booster issue
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The spacecraft was scheduled to take off from SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in Texas. However, computers flagged a booster issue when just 23 minutes were left in the countdown.
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Space Kidz India Announces Groundbreaking Mission ShakthiSAT: An All-Girls
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 24: Space Kidz India (SKI), a trailblazing Indian aerospace startup, is proud to announce the launch of its ambitious project, Mission ShakthiSAT: An All-Girls Spacecraft to Lunar Orbit, an unprecedented initiative aimed at inspiring young women globall
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Musk's Starship rocket 'lost' after 8.5 minutes into flight
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
SpaceX was able to duplicate its prior feat of catching a booster that returned to Earth. But 8.5 minutes into flight, the Starship spacecraft itself was lost, as per CNN.
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Inter-satellite distance now 230 m, spacecraft's health normal: ISRO on Sp
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday said that two small spacecraft that are to dock as part of its technology demonstrator mission are at a distance of 230 metres and their health is normal.
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"Spacecrafts are at a distance of 1.5 km and on hold mode," says ISRO on S
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Friday that spacecrafts in the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDex) mission are at a distance of 1.5 km and on hold mode and further drift to 500 meters is planned to be achieved by Saturday morning.
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"Spacecrafts put in a slow drift for docking," says ISRO on SpaDex mission
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
On Wednesday, ISRO postponed the SpaDex mission which was scheduled for Thursday, after the satellites drifted more than expected during a manoeuvre.
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