Category: NASA

‘New’ NASA Cargo Craft Was Soviet Space Shuttle 50 Years Ago

Washington, Jan 19 (IANS) In what can be termed as an ironic twist of history, US-based Sierra Nevada Corporation's NASA-contracted…

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NASA Programme to Protect Earth from Asteroids

New York, Jan 17 (IANS) NASA has started a new programme called the Planetary Defence Coordination Office (PDCO) which will…

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NASA to Launch New Ocean-Monitoring Satellite

New York, Jan 17 (IANS) NASA is scheduled to launch its new ocean-monitoring satellite -- Jason-3 -- from Vandenberg air…

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NASA Cuts Short ISS Spacewalk After Spacesuit Malfunction

Washington, Jan 16 (IANS) The US space agency terminated a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) owing to a…

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NASA Closer Than Ever to Sending US Astronauts to Mars

Washington, Jan 15 (IANS) NASA is closer than ever to sending American astronauts to Mars in the 2030s and is…

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NASA Awards Space Station Cargo Contracts to 3 Private Companies

Washington, Jan 15 (IANS) US space agency NASA announced on Thursday that it has awarded the second round of commercial…

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NASA’s Solar-Powered Spacecraft to Jupiter Breaks Distance Record

Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) NASA's first solar-powered spacecraft Juno to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity's most distant…

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NASA Probe Reveals in Finer Detail Crater on Dwarf Planet Ceres

Washington, Jan 13 (IANS) NASA's Dawn spacecraft that recently reached its lowest-ever altitude at the dwarf planet Ceres has sent…

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NASA Mission Finds 100 New Alien Planets

New York, Jan 10 (IANS) NASA's planet-hunting revamped Kepler mission has found more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting other stars.…

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Astronomers Spot Most Massive Galaxy Cluster Ever

New York, Jan 8 (IANS) A team of astronomers have detected a massive, sprawling and churning galaxy cluster that formed…

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In a First, Nissan Tests Self-Driving Car at Nasa Facility

San Francisco, Jan 8 (IANS) With the help from NASA space technology, automaker Nissan has successfully test-driven its all-electric, driverless…

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Five Super-Sized Stars Discovered in Other Galaxies

Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system ever, is best known for an enormous…

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Chandra Space Observatory Finds Burping Supermassive Black Hole

Washington, Jan 6 (IANS) NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory has spotted evidence for powerful blasts produced by a burning giant black…

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Green Technologies Can Save Airlines $250 Billions: NASA

Washington, Jan 5 (IANS) A new green-related technologies developed and refined by NASA’s aeronautics researchers during the past six years…

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Wish Happy New Year to Rare Comet on January 1

Washington, Jan 1 (IANS) Did you get a pair of binoculars or a telescope? If so, you can put them…

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See from Space Those Alphabets Drawn by Nature

New York, Dec 31 (IANS) Many of us may have played a game where we look at the stars or…

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Hubble Clicks Two Galaxies Merging for the First Time

Washington, Dec 31 (IANS) In a first, Hubble telescope has captured two galaxies merging located around 230 million light-years away…

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US Honours Pluto’s Historic Flyby with Postal Stamps

Washington, Dec 31 (IANS) The US Postal Service has released a preview of its new 2016 stamps highlighting NASA's planetary…

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NASA Gets $55 Mn Funding to Send Humans to Mars

Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) The Obama administration wants NASA to speed up work on sending humans on deep space exploration…

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NASA Captures Boulders on Martian Landslide

Washington, Dec 29 (IANS) NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured a massive landslide on Mars, showing a boulder-covered landslide along…

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