Starliner landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico at 12:01 a.m. ET on September 7 (9:31 a.m. IST). Ground teams are now preparing to transport Starliner back to Florida for analysis and refurbishment.
One of the astronauts from India's Gaganyaan mission will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) in a joint mission with NASA, Union Minister Jitendra Singh informed the Lok Sabha. The astronaut training is progressing well, with collaboration details finalised with Axiom Space.
Hurricane Beryl strengthened to Category 5 status after it ripped doors, windows and roofs off homes across the southeastern Caribbean with devastating winds and storm surge fueled by the Atlantic’s record warmth.
According to NASA, The duo were not in danger. The astronauts were supposed to remove a faulty communications box and collect microbe samples from outside the orbiting laboratory.
The broadcast, which aired at 5:28 p.m. U.S. Central Time (2228 GMT), included audio of a female voice instructing crew members to assist a commander showing signs of decompression sickness.
SpaceX and Boeing developed their respective vehicles under NASA’s Commercial Crew Programme, a partnership with private industry contractors. From the outset, the space agency aimed to have both companies operating at once.
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were strapped in the Starliner capsule when a computer abruptly aborted the launch countdown. Boeing's planned crewed test flight has faced a series of delays amid competition with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
India and the US are also collaborating on a joint Earth-observing mission NISAR, which will last for three years to survey land and ice-covered regions of the earth. Meanwhile, Indian and American officials held talks in Washington to discuss opportunities to strengthen space collaboration.
A live NASA-SpaceX webcast showed the 25-story-tall rocketship ascending from the launch tower as its nine Merlin engines roared to life in billowing clouds of vapour and a reddish fireball that lit up the night sky. The rocket consumes 700,000 gallons of fuel per second during launch, SpaceX said.
The Axiom-3 mission also includes astronauts from Sweden and Italy and is expected to reach the International Space Station on Saturday. The mission was conducted in collaboration with SpaceX and NASA and seeks to bolster efforts to promote commercial activity in space.
Rakesh Sharma went on to become the first Indian citizen to reach outer space on April 2, 1984, when he flew aboard the Soviet rocket Soyuz T-11 launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome. Nelson is on his maiden visit to India to oversee the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR).
Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt is preparing for his trip to the International Space Station (ISS). Marcus Wandt will fly on third Axiom Space mission, planned for January 2024. Wandt's mission is named Muninn, after Norse mythology. It will be the first time a European Space Agency astronaut has hit
The latest mission is a joint US-Russia venture in space despite hostilities between the countries reaching an all-time high over the ongoing Ukraine conflict.
The astronauts will reach the orbiting lab in their SpaceX capsule on Sunday, replacing four astronauts living up there since March.
The Artemis Accords, established in 2020, is a non-binding, practical set of principles that are used to guide space exploration cooperation among nations and aims to extend space exploration to Mars and beyond. There were 25 signatories upto May 2023 including Australia, Italy, Japan and Canada.
For the first time in 20 years, a Russian cosmonaut rocketed from the U.S., launching to the International Space Station alongside NASA and Japanese astronauts despite tensions over the war in Ukraine.
Russia-Ukraine war: According to reports, Moscow may take this move over sanctions levied on the country amid Ukraine war.
ISS is modular space station in low earth orbit. It a collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada).
Scott Pace, who served as executive secretary of the space council under President Trump and is now the director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, said the space station “has been largely isolated” from political events.
The crew launch marked SpaceX's fourth for NASA in 1-1/2 years and the company's fifth passenger flight overall.
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