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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has relied on Russian rockets to ferry astronauts to the space station. (Photo: NASA)

Lack of well fitting suits makes NASA scrap all-women spacewalk

The US space agency NASA scrapped on Monday a planned historic spacewalk by two women astronauts, citing a lack of...

26 March 2019 11:02 AM IST

Altogether, 13 women passed the arduous physical testing and became known as the Mercury 13. But NASA already had its Mercury 7 astronauts, all test pilots and men.

NASA's 1st female astronaut candidate, Jerrie Cobb, dies at 88

In 1961, Cobb became the first woman to pass astronaut testing.

19 April 2019 9:30 AM IST

Virgin Galactic has not indicated whether the program is ready to move on to rocket-powered test flights.

Virgin Galactic's first test passenger gets commercial astronaut wings

During The 90-minute flight passengers will be able to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the Earth's...

10 April 2019 9:23 AM IST

More than 15,000 scientists and industry representatives from 105 countries, including India, are attending the four-day mega event beginning May 6 in Washington DC. (Photo:AP)

US VP Mike Pence confident American women will land on moon

The United States is planning another space mission to the moon, Vice President Mike Pence said on Monday.

7 May 2019 9:26 AM IST

When NASA was looking for a new class of astronauts, only 12 were selected from a whopping 18,300 applicants.

Pakistan to select candidates next year for first space mission in...

This will be the biggest space event of our history, Science and Technology Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said in a...

26 July 2019 12:22 PM IST

A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, May 30, 2020. (AP)

SpaceX sends two NASA astronauts to ISS in historic mission

Elon Musk's SpaceX now becomes the first commercial company to launch a rocket carrying humans into orbit

31 May 2020 10:32 AM IST

The new cameras are located near an international docking adapter on the stations Harmony module.

NASA astronauts install high-def cameras during spacewalk

The new high-definition video cameras are designed to help to visit commercial spaceships dock there in the coming...

15 Jun 2018 11:32 AM IST

On its website, NASA explains that it does use the materials for wind experiments launched on sounding rockets to the upper atmosphere.

For first time in decades, astronaut quits NASA training

A NASA astronaut candidate has resigned from training, the US space agency has said.

29 Aug 2018 12:14 PM IST

Illeana’s a modern woman

Illeana’s a modern woman

The current crop of actresses does not shy away from living life on their own terms. And Ileana is no exception. Unlike...

7 Dec 2012 4:33 PM IST

FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, right, trudges across the surface of the moon leaving behind footprints. Moon dust collected by Armstrong during the first lunar landing is being sold at a New York auction. The lunar dust plus some tiny rocks that Armstrong also collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million to $4 million. Theyre just some of the items linked to space travel that Sothebys is auctioning off to mark the 48th anniversary of the first lunar landing on July 20. (AP Photo, File)

Neil Armstrong's moon dust collection to be auctioned

Dust and tiny rocks that famed astronaut collected are worth an estimated $2million to $4million.

13 July 2017 1:21 PM IST

The moonwalker with message of peace dies at 82

Cernan was commander of Nasa's Apollo 17 mission and on his third space flight when he set foot on the lunar surface.

18 Jan 2017 2:36 AM IST

This January 1, 1971 image courtesy of NASA shows Apollo astronaut Eugene A. Cernan

Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82

Cernan was the spacecraft commander of Apollo 17.

17 Jan 2017 7:29 AM IST