Boeing launched its Starliner spacecraft into orbit on June 5. The plan was for the craft and its crew to dock with the International Space Station for eight days and then return to Earth safely. That didn’t quite happen, and the craft has now been stuck in space for more than 60 days and NASA … Read more
Nasa is considering extending the stay of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who flew with Boeing‘s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) from one week to eight months. Nasa on Wednesday said that if Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft remains unsafe for returning astronauts to Earth, then those aboard the International Space Station may … Read more
New Delhi: Thirty-eight-year-old Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, one of the four astronaut designates for India’s first human spaceflight Gaganyaan, has been chosen as the prime astronaut to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) for the joint India-US Axiom-4 mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed Friday. The space agency also said that Group … Read more
Home News Sunita Williams Flies To ISS On NASA’s Boeing Starliner Tonight; 3rd Time In Space For Indian-Origin Astronaut Sunita Williams and fellow NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore will be the first humans to go aboard Starliner spacecraft as part of the US space agency’s Commercial Crew Program and the Starliner spacecraft will be catapulted into … Read more
NEW DELHI: The US on Friday announced that Nasa is set to provide advanced training to Indian astronauts to send a joint mission to the International Space Station this year. US envoy to India, Eric Garcetti speaking at the US-India commercial space conference, said, “Nasa will soon provide advanced training to Indian astronauts, with the … Read more
The Starliner spacecraft will be catapulted into space on a Atlas 5 rocket. Washington DC: US space agency NASA on Thursday announced that the first crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, piloted by Indian-origin Sunita Williams to the International Space Station (ISS), is now being targeted for June 1. Mission managers from NASA, Boeing, and … Read more
“It fits in with the general narrative of Boeing having lost its way,” says McDowell. Starliner, like Crew Dragon, is a capsule-shaped spacecraft like the Apollo missions of old. Capable of carrying up to seven astronauts, the craft is largely autonomous, requiring major input only in the event of an emergency. During the test mission … Read more
MOSCOW: A Russian spacecraft with three astronauts successfully docked Monday at the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus reached the space outpost after Saturday’s blastoff from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan that followed an aborted launch attempt two days … Read more
An Edmonton-born oncologist is using a new frontier to research ways to fight cancer. Dr. Matthew Strickland’s samples have been sent by NASA to the International Space Station. Strickland and his team will study the effects of microgravity on cancer by studying how cancer samples — human tumour cells grown into a 3D model of … Read more
NEW DELHI: A Russian Soyuz rocket successfully launched three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, following a two-day delay due to an aborted launch earlier in the week. The spacecraft, carrying Nasa astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, lifted off smoothly from the Baikonur launch facility in … Read more