Astronauts
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Three Chinese astronauts enter new space station on 3-month mission
Science | Jun 17, 2021, 08:11 PM ISTThree Chinese astronauts arrived Thursday at China’s new space station at the start of a three-month mission, marking another milestone in the country’s ambitious space program.
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China to send 3 male astronauts to its space station in June
Science | May 31, 2021, 08:26 AM ISTA three-man crew of astronauts will blast off in June for a three-month mission on China's new space station, according to a space official who was the country's first astronaut in orbit.
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Back in India, 4 astronauts to stay on busy training schedule
Science | Apr 03, 2021, 07:50 AM ISTThe four Indian astronauts returned to India last month after completing their training in Russia and will undergo different kinds of training in Chennai, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan said.
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NASA astronauts complete 7 hour-long spacewalk
Science | Mar 01, 2021, 04:36 PM ISTThe two NASA astronauts began work on Monday to install modification kits required for the upcoming solar array upgrades, the US space agency said in a blog post.
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Spacewalking astronauts prep station for new solar wings
Science | Feb 28, 2021, 06:44 PM ISTSpacewalking astronauts ventured out Sunday to install support frames for new, high-efficiency solar panels arriving at the International Space Station later this year.
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Astronauts squeeze in last spacewalk before SpaceX departure
Science | Jul 22, 2020, 05:17 PM ISTAstronauts squeezed in one last spacewalk Tuesday before turning their attention to the all-important end to SpaceX’s first crew flight.
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NASA to launch first American astronauts to space station since 2011
Science | Apr 18, 2020, 07:49 AM ISTNASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:32 p.m. EDT May 27, from Launch Complex 39A in Florida.
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International Space Station astronauts grow Earth-like fresh lettuce in space
Science | Mar 06, 2020, 08:55 PM ISTThe astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have managed to successfully cultivate salad crop -- red romaine lettuce -- that is free of disease-causing microbes and safe to eat, and is at least as nutritious as Earth-grown plants.
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Astronauts baked cookies in space. Nobody has tasted them yet though
offbeat | Jan 24, 2020, 06:07 PM ISTThe chocolate-chip cookies took at least two hours in the oven in space. The best results came from 120 and 130 minutes in the oven.
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Watch NASA astronauts perform live repair spacewalk at the ISS
Science | Dec 02, 2019, 05:38 PM ISTNASA astronauts on Monday performed spacewalk outside the International Space Station. This spacewalk was a third in the series of spacewalks aimed at repairing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a cosmic ray detector.
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Space travel can cause 'leaky' gut in astronauts: Study
Science | Nov 27, 2019, 02:52 PM ISTResearchers from the University of California (UC), Riverside in the US noted that microgravity environment encountered in space has profound effects on human physiology, leading to clinical symptoms and illnesses including gastroenteritis.
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Donald Trump humiliated by NASA's female astronauts over a mistake
World | Oct 21, 2019, 02:00 PM ISTUS President Donald Trump was humiliated for a mistake while he contacted NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch at the International Space Station (ISS) to congratulate them for being the "first-ever female spacewalkers", a media report said.
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From Moon to Mars, NASA astronauts to wear special spacesuits
Science | Oct 15, 2019, 11:24 AM ISTNASA will go live today, as the first woman and man will explore the Moon wearing their spacesuits as part of the international space agency's Artemis program.
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Astronomers find new Jupiter-like planet formed from gas
Science | Sep 27, 2019, 02:20 PM ISTThis new world is "an extraordinary candidate" for this process, said Hubert Klahr of Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, part of the research team. "This find prompts us to review our models."
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NASA tests abort system for Orion crew capsule designed to carry astronauts to moon
Jul 02, 2019, 10:49 PM ISTNASA aims to put astronauts back on the moon by 2024 using its still-in-development Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket. Tuesday's test represents "a really great, great step forward today for the team," Mark Kirasich said.
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Radiation can impact astronauts' memory temporarily: Russian scientists
Apr 10, 2019, 12:55 PM ISTSpace radiation could temporarily hinder formation of new cells in brains' memory centres.
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NASA plans to land astronauts on Mars by 2033
Apr 04, 2019, 08:41 AM ISTLast month, US Vice President Mike Pence urged NASA to return American astronauts to the Moon within five years (by 2024) and warned that if NASA cannot do it, it is NASA, not the mission, that must change.
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Spacewalking astronauts install better station batteries
Mar 30, 2019, 05:57 PM ISTSpacewalking astronauts hustled through battery hookups outside the International Space Station on Friday in a major upgrade of the solar power grid.
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Scientists create novel planters for astronauts to grow beans in space
Jan 06, 2019, 02:18 PM ISTThe European Space Agency plans to build a lunar base in 2030 as a stopover on the way to Mars. NASA plans to fly directly to the planet with a target landing date of 2030.
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Space delivery: Astronauts get ice cream, make-own pizzas
Nov 14, 2017, 04:45 PM ISTBesides equipment and experiments, the Orbital ATK capsule holds chocolate and vanilla ice cream for the six station astronauts, as well as make-your-own flatbread pizzas.