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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

Pakistan’s program, announced 50 years after the U.S. Apollo 11 mission put the first man on the moon, marks a new departure after focusing on developing communication satellites. (Representational Image)

Pakistan to select candidates next year for first space mission in 2022

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

26 Jul 2019 12:22 PM

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.

07 May 2019 9:26 AM

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 Apr 2019 9:30 AM

Commercial human space flight is now a reality.

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 curvature.

10 Apr 2019 9:23 AM

Until now, male-only or mixed male-female teams had conducted spacewalk since the space station was assembled in 1998. (Representational Image)

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 available spacesuits.

26 Mar 2019 11:02 AM

Robb Kulin resigned from NASA effective August 31 for personal reasons, spokeswoman Brandi Dean said, declining to provide further details.

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

Gerst played a duet of Kraftwerk’s 1978 song “Spacelab.” (Photo: AP)

Astronaut performs with Kraftewerk from space

Video posted shows German astronaut Alexander Gerst “dropping in” for a live performance from the ISS.

22 Jul 2018 5:31 PM

The new cameras are located near an international docking adapter on the station's 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 years.

15 Jun 2018 11:32 AM

Female astronauts have been in to space, but far more men have been sent into orbit than women.

First person on Mars should be a woman, says NASA's chief astronaut trainer

According to Allison McIntyre, a senior NASA engineer at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, a dozen men have already walked on the moon.

18 Apr 2018 11:02 AM

Astronauts onboard the ISS will thaw the frozen sperm to see if sex in space would lead to successful reproduction. (Photo: Pixabay)

NASA sends human sperm to space to see if astronauts can conceive in space

Carried on Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, sperm will be used for experiments to see how space, low gravity affect male sex cells.

12 Apr 2018 1:58 PM

The Institute of BioAcoustic Biology conducted an analysis of the astronauts' voice patterns as they spoke about their encounters. (Photo: AP)

Buzz Aldrin confirms encounter with alien life

Apollo 11 astronaut 'passes lie detector test after recalling encounter with alien life' during historic 1969 mission to the moon.

09 Apr 2018 6:26 PM

There are six astronauts aboard the space station. (Photo: AP)

Russian cargo ship docks at International Space Station

It was launched on February 13 from the Russian space complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

16 Feb 2018 8:29 AM

African-American astronauts have visited the space station, but Epps would have been the first to live there.

NASA bumps Astronaut off space station flight in rare move

Astronaut Jeanette Epps would have been the first African-American to live on the International Space Station.

22 Jan 2018 8:51 AM

Young was born Sept. 24, 1930 and grew up in Orlando, Florida. (Credit:NASA).

NASA: John Young, the legendary Space Shuttle astronaut dies at 87

NASA called Young as the only agency astronaut, the first to fly into space six times.

07 Jan 2018 11:31 AM

He travelled more than 300 feet away from the space shuttle Challenger during the spacewalk.

NASA astronaut, 1st to fly untethered in space, dies at 80

He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker's jetpack, alone in the cosmic blackness above a blue Earth.

23 Dec 2017 12:15 PM

The crew will gradually approach the station, which orbits about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth, for two days before docking.

US, Russian, Japanese crew blasts off for space station

Onboard cameras showed crew members making thumbs-up gestures after the blast-off.

18 Dec 2017 7:58 AM

He died when his F-104 Starfighter crashed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. (Photo: AP)

First black astronaut honored on 50th anniversary of death

He had a great future ahead of him if he had not been lost 50 years ago.

10 Dec 2017 5:50 PM

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

Want a job at NASA? Read this first

The starting pay is pretty good, but the jobs are pretty hard to get, tough to keep.

18 Sep 2017 11:39 AM

Space travellers are relaxing in Kazakhstan

All three returning space travellers are out of their capsule and relaxing in chairs on the steppes of Kazakhstan.

04 Sep 2017 8:25 AM

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