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  Astronomers spot elusive giant black hole couples

  October 04, 2017 23:54 IST

  Astronomers including one of Indian-origin have identified five pairs of supermassive black holes, each containing millions of times the mass of the Sun, in the centres of galaxies

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  Chinese astronauts to return home after longest space mission

  World | November 17, 2016 18:39 IST

  China's spacecraft Shenzhou-11, carrying two taikonauts separated from orbiting experimental space labTiangong-2 today as they prepared for their journey to return to earth after a month's stay in space, the longest by Chinese astronauts.

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  ‘Vote while you float’: Two American astronauts vote from space in US presidential election

  World | November 08, 2016 12:55 IST

  When tens of millions of people around the United States head to polling places to cast their votes in Tuesday's presidential election, two American astronauts orbiting the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour have already

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  Chinese astronauts aboard the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft enter space lab after successful docking

  World | October 19, 2016 18:01 IST

  The two Chinese astronauts who set off aboard the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft as part of the Communist country’s longest ever manned space mission have successfully entered the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab. The move spells

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  Astronauts travelling to Mars prone to brain damage, dementia: Study

  World | October 11, 2016 14:56 IST

  A new study has claimed that astronauts travelling to Mars might be at risk of long-term brain damage and even dementia due to galactic cosmic ray exposure

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  Want to see NASA astronauts take a spacewalk? Today is your chance! (Watch Live)

  World | September 01, 2016 15:26 IST

  In a first of its kind initiative, US space agency NASA will today broadcast a spacewalk live on NASA TV beginning at 6:30 a.m. EDT (4: 00 p.m IST). In what will be the second

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  Video! NASA astronauts to perform spacewalk today, to install new docking adapter

  World | August 19, 2016 11:24 IST

  Two NASA astronauts -- Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins -- will perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today. Williams will undertake such a spacewalk for the

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  Robots to eventually replace humans on space missions

  July 26, 2016 18:47 IST

  Autonomous robots capable of swimming, climbing and walking will eventually replace humans and animals on space missions.

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  Obama welcomes NASA's Scott Kelly back to Earth

  World | March 03, 2016 7:21 IST

  Washington: US President Barack Obama spoke on phone with NASA astronaut Scott Kelly on Wednesday, welcoming him back to Earth from his yearlong mission on the International Space Station (ISS), the White House said.Obama thanked

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  NASA fires up engine to take astronauts to Mars

  World | August 14, 2015 17:50 IST

  Washington:  As part of its ambitious Space Launch System (SLS), the US space agency has successfully tested an engine that will help propel astronauts on future deep-space missions, including Mars.The 535-second test of RS-25 rocket

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  Space salad: Astronauts grow vegetables in space

  World | August 11, 2015 8:46 IST

  Washington (AP):   These are the salad days of scientific research on the International Space Station. On Monday, for the first time astronauts munched on red romaine lettuce that they grew in space.After clicking their

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  Chinese astronauts give lecture to kids from orbiting space station

  World | June 20, 2013 12:52 IST

  Beijing, Jun 20: Chinese astronauts struck floating martial arts poses, twirled gyroscopes and manipulated wobbling globes of water during a lecture Thursday from China's orbiting space station that's part of efforts to popularize the space

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  Astronauts face radiation threat on long Mars trip

  World | May 31, 2013 11:19 IST

  Los Angeles, May 31: Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much cosmic radiation as they'd get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, researchers reported

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  Astronauts spacewalk to fix ammonia leak

  World | May 12, 2013 14:04 IST

  Washington, May 12: Two US astronauts conducted an emergency spacewalk Saturday to inspect and replace a device believed to be the source of an ammonia leak in the orbiting laboratory's power system, US space agency

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  Three astronauts return to Earth from space station

  World | March 16, 2013 20:14 IST

  Moscow, Mar 16: A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed Saturday morning on the steppes of Kazakhstan, safely returning the three men to Earth after a 144-day mission to

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  Nasa deliberately kept Kalpana Chawla, other astronauts in dark about impending death

  World | February 02, 2013 12:29 IST

  London, Feb 2: A NASA employee has revealed how Mission Control decided 10 years ago not to reveal to Kalpana Chawla and six other astronauts that they were doomed to die on re-entry of the

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  Astronauts go spacewalking to hang station shields

  World | August 21, 2012 12:51 IST

  Cape Canaveral, Florida, Aug 21 : Spacewalking astronauts improved the safety of their orbiting home Monday by installing shields to protect against zooming pieces of junk.Gennady Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko hung the panels on the

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  Chinese astronauts successfully complete first manual docking

  World | June 24, 2012 19:15 IST

  Beijing, Jun 24: China today successfully achieved its first-ever manual docking, a great leap forward in setting up of a space lab by 2020, even as it offered to send foreign astronauts, possibly a Pakistani,

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  Shuttle Astronauts Busy With Space Station Stockpiling

  World | July 11, 2011 19:08 IST

  Cape Canaveral, Florida, Jul 11: The astronauts on NASA's final space shuttle flight got cracking Monday on all their supply delivery work, successfully hoisting a giant trunk out of Atlantis and attaching it to the

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  Hundred Years Starship: Nasa To Leave Astronauts On Mars Forever

  World | October 28, 2010 12:01 IST

  The US space agency Nasa is planning an audacious mission to send a manned spacecraft on a one-way trip to permanently settle  human beings on other planets, reports Daily Mail, London. The ambitious idea is known