Who is astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla? The IAF officer set to pilot NASA’s Axiom Mission 4 to the ISS—all you need to know

[ad_1] Indian air force officer Shubhanshu Shukla, is set to create history by piloting NASA and ISRO’s joint space mission to the International Space Station later this year. According to a NASA statement last week, Shubhanshu Shukla will pilot its mission travel to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Florida “no earlier than…

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Is Mumbai in danger as ’City Killer’ asteroid approaches Earth? All you need to know about the possible collision

[ad_1] Asteroid 2024 YR4, dubbed “city killer”, is making headlines after astronomers projected that it has 1.5%, or 1 in 67, chance of striking the Earth during its close approach on December 22, 2032. NASA and other space agencies across the world, have been closely monitoring its trajectory.  Asteroid 2024 YR4 size This celestial object…

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Sunita Williams stuck in space: From vapourisation upon re-entry to oxygen shortage – Why return is too risky

[ad_1] Sunita William stuck in space: The return spaceflight of NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station is still stuck in a limbo. Sunita Williams‘ return to Earth was originally scheduled in June this year. But repeated glitches in Boeing Starliner spacecraft led to the extension of the space program…

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NASA finds unusual Space structures in unexpected places; scientists struggle to explain its meaning

[ad_1] NASA’s recent discovery of strange formations of an electrified layer of gas in the ionosphere has challenged the scientists’ perception of having a complete understanding of the Earth’s outer layer. Space experts are struggling to explain the existence of X and C-shaped structures discovered in the ionosphere under NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb…

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Elon Musk on SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn launch on August 27: ‘First spacewalk by company, furthest from Earth in 50+ years…’

[ad_1] Billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on August 22 took to social media to post about his company’s new space mission — the first-ever private spacewalk. “This will be the first spacewalk by a commercial company and the furthest from Earth anyone has traveled in over half a century!” Musk, posted on his social…

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5 stunning NASA images that will leave you in awe

[ad_1] The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) continues to share images from space of celestial bodies, planets, nebula, moon, star clusters, interacting galaxies, etc. Most of these images are captured by NASA’s James Webb Telescope, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and NASA’s Chandra Space-based observatory. Here are a few images from space shared by NASA…

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NASA News: Curiosity makes ‘strangest’ and ‘most unexpected’ discovery on Planet Mars; scientists call it ‘mind-blowing’

[ad_1] NASA News: The Curiosity rover made its most unusual discovery on Mars: rocks made of pure sulfur. The rover drove over a rock and cracked it open, revealing yellowish-green crystals which had never been seen before on Mars. Ashwin Vasavada, the Curiosity project scientist at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), called it the Mars…

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