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After historic first spacewalk, billionaire entrepreneur bats for future c
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Gillis, a classically trained violinist, recorded herself performing music from "Star Wars" on her violin. Videos from the performance shows captivativng visuals of Gillis preforming the Rey's theme composed by John Williams "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". Gillis' violin part was synchroniz
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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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Elon Musk announces SpaceX to launch first Starships to Mars in two years
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Elon Musk stated that these will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars.
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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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Boeing's Starliner to return to Earth from ISS without Sunita Williams
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finished packing Starliner with cargo and configuring its cabin for return. The duo closed Starliner's hatch for the final time on Thursday afternoon readying the spacecraft for its uncrewed departure, NASA said.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX satellite internet service Starlink says will comply wi
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes had ordered the freeze of Starlink's financial transactions. On September 2, all five judges in Brazil's Supreme Court unanimously voted to uphold the ban imposed on Musk's social media platform 'X'.
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NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 changes ahead of September launch
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than September 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. The updated crew complement follows NASA's decision to return the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test uncrewed
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Elon Musk-led SpaceX 'Polaris Dawn' featuring 1st commercial spacewalk mis
Updated : 1 year, 6 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, 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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Elon Musk "willing to serve" after Donald Trump hints at cabinet post for
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
"I am willing to serve," posted Musk on his 'X' platform after the Trump in a Reuters interview said that Musk will be welcome to become part of the US administration if the Republican candidate wins the US presidential election in November.
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Bayanat, Yahsat launch UAE's first SAR satellite
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
In a landmark achievement, the Bayanat-owned SAR satellite, in collaboration with Yahsat, was launched via integrator Exolaunch and successfully lifted off aboard SpaceX's Transporter 11 rideshare from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA
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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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