Moon Landing
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Chandrayaan-2: Vikram module on course for historic soft landing on Moon
Sep 05, 2019, 06:59 PM ISTChandrayaan-2's landing module 'Vikram' will begin its final descent to pull off a historic soft landing on the lunarsurface in the early hours of Saturday, as the Indian Space Research Organisation awaits with bated breath for the "terrifying moment."
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Chandrayaan 2 Update: Vikram lander inches closer to moon; completes first de-orbiting manoeuvre
Sep 03, 2019, 11:37 AM ISTVikram is scheduled to roll out 'Pragyaan', a six-wheeled rover, after making a soft landing on the south polar region of the moon on September 7 between 1.30 a.m. to 2.30 a.m. 'Pragyaan' will carry out the research for which it was designed.
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Chandrayaan-2 to reach moon's orbit on August 20: ISRO
Sep 03, 2019, 03:49 PM ISTThe 3,850-kg Chandrayaan-2, a three-module spacecraft comprising orbiter, lander and rover, which was launched on July 22, would make a landing on the moon on September 7, the ISRO chief said.
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We felt the weight of the world on our shoulders: Apollo 11 pilot, Michael Collins
Jul 19, 2019, 12:24 PM ISTCollins had the spotlight to himself this time — Armstrong has been gone for seven years and Aldrin canceled. Collins said he wished his two moonwalking colleagues could have shared the moment at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.
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50 years ago today, 'one small step' of Neil Armstrong changed the course of future
Jul 19, 2019, 12:00 PM ISTArmstrong, who died in 2012 at age 82, said he came up with the statement himself. In a 2001 NASA oral history, he said NASA discouraged coaching astronauts, a position reflected in a NASA memo. It cited how "the truest emotion ... is what the explorer feels within himself."
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Russia space agency chief: We'll verify US moon landings
India | Nov 24, 2018, 08:05 PM IST"We have set this objective to fly and verify whether they've been there or not," said Dmitry Rogozin in a video posted Saturday on Twitter.
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James Blunt says he isn't earnest
Hollywood | Nov 11, 2014, 12:47 PM ISTLos Angeles: Singer James Blunt says he's not earnest, suggesting his music gives a distorted picture of what he's really like.The 40-year-old is in the midst of a career rival following the release of his