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  We felt the weight of the world on our shoulders: Apollo 11 pilot, Michael Collins

  Science | 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

  Science | 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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  ISRO announces fresh date of Chandrayaan-2 launch

  Science | July 18, 2019 12:12 IST

  The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO ) has annouced the new launch date of its second Moon mission -- Chandrayaan-2. The rocket will be launched on July 22 at 2:43 pm.

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  200 artefacts from NASA moon missions to go on auction; here's list of other things on offer

  Science | June 28, 2019 9:46 IST

  The auction, to feature in New York, is highlighted by a written record kept by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first two humans to land on moon. Objects from 'One Giant Leap' will be on public view at Christie's New York from July 11-17 with a special presentation by Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise on July 10.

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  Sriharikota to Moon: Tracking Chandrayaan-2's lunar mission

  June 14, 2019 14:41 IST

  Know what exactly will happen when India's Chandrayaan-2 blasts off and heads to the moon to write a new chapter in India's space program.

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  Chandrayaan-2, India's second moon mission set for July launch: All you need to know

  Science | May 16, 2019 15:59 IST

  Chandrayaan-2, India's second moon mission, is set to be launched in July this year. The lift-off has been scheduled during the launch window of July 9-16, 2019 with an expected moon landing on September 6, 2019.

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  NASA's Artemis to put first woman on Moon

  Science | May 14, 2019 11:12 IST

  NASA's plans for the first woman on the lunar surface ever comes nearly five decades after the men set their foot there.

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  Israel's first Moon mission spacecraft sends selfie back to earth

  Science | March 07, 2019 7:37 IST

  The image showing part of the Beresheet spacecraft with Earth in the background was beamed to mission control in Yehud, Israel — 37,600 kilometres (23,360 miles) away, the project's lead partners said in a statement.  

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  NASA seeks US partners to design, develop reusable systems for Moon mission

  Science | December 14, 2018 12:51 IST

  The agency plans to send humans to the Moon using a system of three separate elements that will provide transfer, landing, and safe return. 

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  Chandrayaan-2: India's second Moon mission launch postponed to October

  India | March 23, 2018 16:26 IST

  The experts had met recently and suggested the tests, following which the mission will now be launched in October, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K Sivan said.

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  For first time in nation’s history, India set to land on Moon with Chandrayaan-II

  Science | December 02, 2017 23:41 IST

  It will be launched using a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV Mk II) which includes a lunar orbiter, lander and rover, all made in India.

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  India’s first ever private mission to Moon set to take off in 2017

  India | December 06, 2016 12:06 IST

  TeamIndus, a Bengaluru-based space technology company, is all set to launch its spacecraft that will land on Moon as part of its bid to win the Google Lunar XPRIZE. Indian space agency ISRO will lift

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  US government approves first commercial mission to moon

  World | August 04, 2016 7:10 IST

  The US government has given a go ahead to fly the first commercial mission to a spaceship beyond Earth’s orbit and land on the moon. The Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance Wednesday to Moon Express

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  Meet the first man who ‘peed’ on moon! He is not Neil Armstrong

  Blah | July 15, 2016 18:45 IST

  New Delhi: It’s been 47 years when astronaut Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man ever to walk on the moon. In fact, Neil created several more records that day, from being the

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  India to launch Chandrayaan-2 in 2017

  India | August 25, 2014 10:23 IST

  Salem: Chandrayaan-2, the country's second lunar exploration mission, would be launched in 2017, M Annadurai, project director of Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan 2, said.Chandrayaan-I, India's first mission to Moon, was launched successfully on October 22, 2008

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  NASA's moon mission crashed into the lunar surface at an incredible 5,700 km per hour

  April 21, 2014 16:30 IST

  Washington: Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), the moon exploring robot of NASA was annihilated when it impacted the surface of the moon, as planned last weekend, the US space agency announced.“At the time

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  ISRO firmly denies IAF's Man to Moon mission claim

  India | January 01, 2014 9:46 IST

  Bangalore: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has refuted the claim made by two senior Indian Air Force officials that India was planning to send a man to the Moon.A press release issued by ISRO

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  India's next moon mission depends on Russian help, says ISRO chief

  India | September 10, 2012 11:46 IST

  Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) Sep 9: India's second moon mission will depend on Russia's decision after a failed inter-planetary mission with China, said India's space agency chief Sunday, a day when it launched its 100th mission.