NASA’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit celebrates 70th birthday in style, lands on Earth after 220 days

[ad_1] For NASA’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit, his 70th birthday was not about spending quietly with family and friends, cutting a cake, blowing out candles or any other traditional feat. Instead, Don Pettit turned 70 in space, while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft as he wrapped up a mission aboard the International…

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K2-18b: Planet, located 124 light-years from Earth, may be teeming with life, scientists make ‘landmark discovery’

[ad_1] In a potential landmark discovery, scientists obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system. They used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b and detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms. The two gases…

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Who are Nick Hague, Aleksandr Gorbunov, who rescued NASA astronaut Sunita Williams

[ad_1] NASA’s Nick Hague and Russia’s Aleksandr Gorbunov, who arrived aboard their own SpaceX capsule last fall with two seats left for the ‘Starliner duo,’ have made a remarkable splashdown after months in space. Following a tense nine-month ordeal, they joined NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and her colleagues, who had been stranded in space, completing…

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Sunita Williams’ homecoming: Astronaut’s Gujarat roots traced to Jhulasan village—key details

[ad_1] With NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore finally returning to Earth after their prolonged nine-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the citizen engagement platform of Government of Gujarat took to X and shared some interesting facts about the Sunita Williams. Born on 19 September 1965 in US’ Ohio, Sunita’s father Deepak…

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Sunita Williams’ return: PM Modi writes to ’daughter of India’, says ’even though you are miles away…’

[ad_1] With NASA astronaut all set to return to earth from International Space Station (ISS), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed his concern for the ‘daughter of India’. “Even though you are thousands of miles away, you remain close to our hearts,” said PM Narendra Modi’s heartfelt letter sent to Sunita Williams through astronaut…

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Sunita Williams return: Baby feet, dizziness, weightless tongue—astronauts face health challenges after months in space

[ad_1] Sunita Williams return: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally on their way back home to Earth, ending an extended nine-month stay on the International Space Station (ISS), but it seems that the space travel is not their biggest challenge left. While the journey back home is technical and precise, the SpaceX…

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