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China plans second manned spacemission 01 March 2013
China is soon all set to launch a space mission with a man onboard the spacecraft which will later dock with a space module already in orbit around the Earth. This plan comes at a time when the nation has...
Keywords: china manned space mission, spacelab, spacelab, second manned mission
Read MoreNASA's Mars challenge 22 September 2014
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] is offering a USD 20,000 prize money for the winners who can come up with a design idea for small science and technology payloads that could also provide the necessary weight to balance...
Keywords: weather in Mars, mission mars, atmosphere, mission mars
Read MoreA trip that could test the best of marriages! 01 March 2013
On Wednesday, a tycoon announced plans to send a middle-aged couple on a privately-built spaceship to slingshot around the Red Planet and come back home hopefully with their bodies and marriage in one piece after 501 days of no-escape togetherness...
Keywords: Inspiration Mars, Taber MacCallum, Dennis Tito, Dennis Tito
Read MoreSeasonal water streams found on Mars 05 August 2011
Astronomers, who established that there are frozen water deposits on the surface of the red planet Mars, have now found what they called the seasonal streams of liquid water flowing across its surface. Prof. Lujendra Ojha and his colleague Dr...
Keywords: seasonal water streams on Mars, slope streaks, University of Arizona, Dr Alfred McEwen
Read MoreMangalyaan Beyond Moon 03 December 2013
The Mars Orbiter Mission called Mangalyaan that fired on Sunday to give a full boost to go out of the Earth's orbit has now gone beyond moon’s orbit and travelling on its mission to Mars. The MOM now has a...
Keywords: Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) of India, spacecraft MOM, Mars Orbiter Mission called Mangalyaan, Mars Orbiter Mission called Mangalyaan
Read MoreThis is how Earth looks for Saturnians 03 August 2013
Earth glows, even from 1.5 billion kilometers in space. Two NASA interplanetary spacecrafts offered us one black and white and one color photo of Earth from millions of miles away. Some days back, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped Earth and its...
Keywords: Earth from space, Saturn's rings and Earth, NASA interplanetary spacecrafts, Cassini spacecraft
Read MorePictures of Earth from Saturn 20 July 2013
It's time for planet Earth to strike a pose. The Cassini Spacecraft is currently flying near Saturn and has clicked a picture of Earth on Friday from 900 million miles away. Nearly 300 visitor assembled at the Griffith Observatory in...
Keywords: Earth photo from Saturn, Griffith Observatory, Earth pictures at Griffith Observatory, Earth from space
Read MoreSaturn-Earth 'photobomb' picture released by NASA 24 July 2013
The US space agency has brought into prominence a rare photo of the Earth and moon taken from the vantage point of the outer solar system, accompanied by Saturn's rings in the shot. Nasa said that the colour images were...
Keywords: earth-imaging, photobomb, nasa delivers saturn-earth 'photobomb' picture, interplanetary distances.
Read MoreLife on Mars India's Quest 30 October 2013
Life on other planets always makes interesting news. The thought of it mixed with creativity made hundreds of movies to emerge to allure audience. They are called aliens and usually they are shown as more intelligent and more advanced in...
Keywords: launch of Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), ISRO Chairman Dr.K.Radhakrishnan, ISRO’s first mission to Mars, launch of Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)
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