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NASA okays launch of private space station trip 13 December 2011
A private California company will attempt the first-ever commercial cargo run to the International Space Station in February. NASA announced the news Friday, one year and one day after Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, became the first private business...
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Read MoreSunitha Williams on her second space mission 15 July 2012
Soyuz, the Russian craft has been launched this morning carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station. Sunitha Willams from Nasa, Yury Malenchenko a Russian cosmonaut, and Akihito Hoshide represinting Japan would travel for 2 days after which they would...
Keywords: Soyuz, Russian, international space station, Sunitha Williams
Read MoreAditya-1, satellite for Sun, to be launched by 2017, ISRO 16 June 2015
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch Aditya-1 satellite for the Sun in next three years. “We realised that we can put the satellite in an orbit from where it can see the Sun continuously, hence increasing the...
Keywords: ISS, Solar maxima, Aditya-1 satellite, ISS
Read MoreRussia Likely To Delay Space Deliveries 25 August 2011
Russia’s Progress M-12M space freighter fell in South Siberia's Altai Republic, on Wednesday. The Soyuz-U carrier rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan and was scheduled to separate at 5:09 p.m. Moscow time [13:09 GMT]. A rocket...
Keywords: space freighter accident., Russian space news, Space program, Progress freighter
Read MoreFacebook chief Mark Zuckerberg had Live chat with astronauts 02 June 2016
In a first of its kind, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg took the leading social network on a new journey, with a live-streamed chat with astronauts on the International Space Station. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday took time off his...
Keywords: International Space Station, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg
Read MoreNASA launched a new communication satellite 31 January 2013
On Thursday, NASA launched a new communication satellite to stay in touch with its space station astronauts and relay more Hubble telescope images. In fact, an unmanned Atlas V rocket blasted into the starry night sky carrying the Tracking and...
Keywords: NASA astronauts., hubble telescope, NASA astronauts., tracking and data relay satellite
Read MoreCosmonauts forced to stay UP 30 August 2011
On Monday the Russia informed that the launch of its next manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) would be delayed further. This was due to the recent crash of its Progress M-12M. Incidentally, after the retirement of the...
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