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Washington: The United States is pushing back its planned return to the Moon from 2026 to “mid-2027” as it deals with heat shield issues and other troubles plaguing its Orion crew capsule, NASA officials said Thursday. The announcement comes as President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to take office in January and could significantly reshape the…
CAPE CANAVERAL: A tech billionaire who bought a series of spaceflights from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and conducted the first private spacewalk was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday to lead NASA. Jared Isaacman, 41, CEO and founder of a card-processing company, has been a close collaborator with Musk ever since buying his first chartered…
Since Donald Trump’s recent electoral victory, rumours and speculation have circulated that Nasa’s giant Moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), could be under threat. The rocket is one of several key elements needed for the US space agency’s Artemis programme, which aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972….
What is Red Planet Day 2024? Every year on November 28, we celebrate Red Planet Day, a day all about Mars, which is the fourth planet from the Sun. Mars is often called the “Red Planet” due to its reddish color and has fascinated people—scientists and non-scientists alike—for many years. This day lets us…
Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary sight in the cosmos — a nebula resembling a flame-throwing guitar. This discovery was made possible by the combined efforts of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. Named Guitar Nebula, it showcases the cosmic artistry of a collapsed star, ejecting streams of energetic particles in a spectacle…
Nicknamed as a “mini moon” or “second moon,” asteroid 2024 PT5 was first seen on August 7 by a NASA-sponsored asteroid detecting system. This bus-sized asteroid is currently approaching the end of its close visit to Earth and will vanish until 2055. The asteroid was momentarily trapped by Earth’s gravity and became a “mini moon”…
ISRO Astronauts Training In Houston For 2025 Flight To International Space Station Source link [ad_3]
Astronaut Sunita Williams along with her fellow astronaut Butch Willmore have been at the International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024. The pair had launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on June 5 for its first crewed flight, arriving at the space station on June 6. What was supposed to be an eight-day-long mission turned into…
NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft recently established contact with Earth after a brief halt with the help of a radio transmitter that has not been used since 1981. NASA engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California re-established contact with the spacecraft on October 24. The spacecraft, which is in interstellar space over 15 billion…
The nine shortlisted landing sites for Artemis III are near the lunar South Pole. New Delhi: The National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA) shortlisted nine potential landing sites near the lunar South Pole for its upcoming Artemis III mission. This is the American space agency’s first crewed Moon landing in over 50 years. These locations are…