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  Chandrayaan-2: Vikram module on course for historic soft landing on Moon

  September 05, 2019 18:59 IST

  Chandrayaan-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

  September 03, 2019 11:37 IST

  Vikram 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

  September 03, 2019 15:49 IST

  The 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

  July 19, 2019 12:24 IST

  Collins 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

  July 19, 2019 12:00 IST

  Armstrong, 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 | November 24, 2018 20:05 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 | November 11, 2014 12:47 IST

  Los 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