Astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleague, astronaut Butch Wilmore, who travelled to the International Space Station (ISS) in June, will have to stay longer in space due to technical issues with Boeing’s Starliner and delays in the next crew launch.The astronauts who went on June 5, 2024, were originally set to return in February 2025, … Read more
Assigned Ax-4 Mission pilot Shubhanshu Shukla (extreme left) with mission specialists Slawosz Uznanski and Tibor Kapu (right) during a training for the ISS mission, at the European Astronaut Centre recently. Credit: Axiom Space. NEW DELHI: In a step towards unfurling India’s tricolour at the biggest space station, Indian astronaut-candidate Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is set … Read more
Nasa astronaut Matt Dominick aboard the space station captured this waxing lunar crescent illuminated by sunlight. The Moon’s dim glow, caused by earthshine, occurs when sunlight reflects off Earth onto the Moon. Scientists study Earth’s brightness, or albedo, using this phenomenon. The photo also reveals Earth’s atmospheric layers, including the orange troposphere near the surface … Read more
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been in space for an extended mission, marked six months aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, with two months remaining. The duo launched on June 5 aboard Boeing’s new Starliner crew capsule, originally intended for a week-long test flight.Their arrival at the International Space Station occurred the … Read more
Back in 1959, the Army Corp of Engineers carved its own Echo Base into the Greenland ice as a testbed for launching nuclear missiles from Arctic locations. The base was abandoned in 1967, but a new scan from NASA shows it’s still sitting 100 feet below the ice — along with all its radioactive waste. … Read more
On November 23, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), led by Commander Sunita Williams, responded swiftly after Russian cosmonauts detected a strange “toxic” smell when opening the hatch of the Progress MS-29 cargo spacecraft. The Progress MS-29 spacecraft, which was uncrewed, had docked with the ISS’s Poisk module earlier that day, bringing essential supplies … Read more
Rocket parts, near Kenjebai-Samai, 2019 Launch Pad One is where the first human, Yuri Gagarin, launched to space on April 12, 1961. The Soyuz spacecraft has been in operation since the late 1960s and, due to its length of service, is considered the safest and most cost-effective space vehicle. The capsule of the spacecraft, which … Read more
Aboard the International Space Station, crew members are consuming soup prepared from their purified urine. Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who have been isolated in space since June, are sustaining themselves with recycled pee soup. The stranded astronauts on the ISS have expressed worries about their declining weight who are relying on soup … Read more
washington — A NASA astronaut who was hospitalized upon return from the International Space Station for an unspecified medical condition was released Saturday in “good health,” the U.S. space agency said. The four-member Crew-8 mission splashed down off the coast of Florida early Friday after nearly eight months aboard the orbital laboratory. NASA did not … Read more
Houston, Boeing has a problem! The embattled aerospace giant — which helped put the first man on the moon — is exploring the sale of some parts of its NASA business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The sale, which is in the early stages and might not … Read more
