After spending around two weeks at International Space Station (ISS), Axiom Mission 4 astronaut crew including Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla are set to return to Earth on Monday (July 14). NASA is set to provide live coverage of their departure from the orbital lab. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying the four-member crew, is scheduled to […]
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With their stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) extended by three days, till July 14, the Axiom-4 crew plans to continue performing scientific experiments. On Thursday, NASA confirmed that they were awaiting suitable weather conditions, and the undocking of the Axiom-4 Dragon will be no earlier than July 14 (4.30 pm IST Monday). In […]
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US space agency NASA recently announced the delay of the Axiom Mission 4 (or Ax-4) again due to operational concerns. Initially scheduled to launch on June 22, NASA opted to delay the mission yet again. The mission’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and Dragon spacecraft, are still on their assigned launchpad, Launch Complex 39A, at Kennedy […]
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Don Pettit, the oldest serving astronaut at NASA, splashed down to Earth on Sunday, April 20, after spending over 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS) The 70-year-old had embarked on the seven months-long science mission aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft on September 11, 2024. The mission crew also comprised Russian cosmonauts […]
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission launches to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., March 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Thursday, including the first person from the Arab world going up for an extended months long stay. The […]
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Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev conducts a spacewalk with cosmonaut Dmitry Petelin outside the International Space Station in November 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia launched a rescue ship on February 24 for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride home sprang a dangerous leak while parked at the International Space Station. The new, […]
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After a hiatus of nearly eight months, NASA is going to conduct a series of spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS). Spacewalks were suspended since March 23 when a small amount of water was found in an astronaut’s helmet. The first space walk will be conducted on November 15 and the space agency will […]
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A Northrop Grumman capsule delivered several tons of supplies to the International Space Station on Wednesday despite a jammed solar panel. The shipment arrived two days after launching from Virginia. Only one of the cargo ship’s two round solar panels opened following liftoff. Flight controllers tried in vain to open the stuck panel, but managed […]
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A Northrop Grumman rocket successfully launched on November 7, carrying a Cygnus cargo spacecraft dubbed S.S Sally Ride into orbit. But after successfully entering orbit, the spacecraft carrying more than 3,700 kilograms of cargo meant for the International Space Station could only deploy one of its two solar arrays. NASA says it will attempt to […]
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“This evening, the International Space Station’s Progress 81 thrusters fired for 5 minutes, 5 seconds in a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) to provide the complex an extra measure of distance away from the predicted track of a fragment of Russian Cosmos 1408 debris,” said the NASA statement. According to the space agency, the firing […]
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