[ad_1] US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was withdrawing his nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, a close ally of Elon Musk, to lead space agency NASA. Trump said last December, before returning to office, that he wanted the online payments entrepreneur and the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk to serve as…
[ad_1] During their space journey last year, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore wondered whether they would have been able to ‘make it back’ home if their Starliner vehicle had not docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Starliner’s historic first test mission with NASA astronauts had issues docking with the ISS on June…
[ad_1] Axiom Mission 4 crew (from left to right) European Space Agency astronaut Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, ISRO astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary. File photo: X@NASASpaceOps via PTI Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and other crew members of the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission to the International Space Station (ISS)…
[ad_1] Spy satellites may have been used in the lead-up to the terror attack in Pahalgam, reports say. But India also uses such satellites through the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and has ramped up their deployment. How do these sky-borne spooks really work? Also Read | What the US-China trade deal means for IT…
[ad_1] Stakeholders of the industry that Mint spoke with, requesting anonymity, said a formalization of India’s operating procedures for space project procurement, coupled with on-paper confirmation of how foreign investors can approach the government for large investments in India in space, can open up a multi-billion-dollar opportunity for the sector, which seeks to quadruple its net annual…
[ad_1] Axiom Mission 4: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is all set to launch into space on May 29. He will travel to the International Space Station, along with three other crew members, from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 10.33 pm IST on May 29. Shukla will travel to space…
[ad_1] A little bit more than 124 light years from Earth, circling an otherwise uninteresting star in the constellation of Leo, sits a planet called K2-18 b. It is one of thousands of exoplanets spotted by Kepler, a space telescope that was launched in 2009 and is designed for the task. In 2019 observations by…
[ad_1] Six years after missing out on history’s first women-only spacewalk due to a shortage of medium-sized spacesuits, Colonel Anne McClain of the US Army finally ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday alongside Air Force Major Nichole Ayers. The pair, both military pilots, had journeyed to the orbiting laboratory in March to…
[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…
[ad_1] India is poised to achieve a significant milestone in its space exploration journey as Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Air Force is set to become the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS). Scheduled for May 2025, this mission will mark India’s return to human spaceflight after a gap…
