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Cabinet approves 'Gaganyaan programme' for manned flight to space
Dec 31, 2018 (IANS)
Informing about the decision on Friday, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said: "Three Indian astronauts will be sent to space for up to seven days by 2022." A...
India Approves $1.4Bln for First Manned Spaceflight to be Launched in 2022
Dec 31, 2018 (Sputnik)
The Indian government has approved a fund of around $1.4 billion for its ambitious manned spaceflight (Gaganyaan Programme) that is to be launched within the ne...
India to send three-person crew on landmark space mission
Dec 28, 2018 (AFP)
Indian ministers approved $1.4 billion to provide technology and infrastructure for the programme, according to a government statement. The sum would make India...
Russian Cosmonaut Dismisses Rumours About ISS Crew, Hole in Soyuz Spaceship
Dec 27, 2018 (Sputnik)
"A lot has already been said about it on social networks, but I want to assure you that everything that is written on social networks, almost everything is not ...
2018's privatized space race reached for asteroids, Mars
Dec 26, 2018 (UPI)
NASA celebrated its 60th birthday in October, the same year it announced goals to take humans back to the moon, explored asteroids and landed a new rover on Mar...
Roscosmos Chief Could Visit US in Early 2019, NASA Working on Sanctions Waiver
Dec 25, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The dates will be clear after the program [of the visit] is prepared. Based on this, it will be necessary to submit documents. Approximately, it will be in Jan...
Investigators to Question Russia Cosmonauts Amid ISS 'Hole' Probe
Dec 24, 2018 (Sputnik)
Prokopyev returned to the Earth on the Soyuz on Thursday. On the same day, a source said that both cosmonauts would be questioned in the case. Artemyev returned...
NASA thanks Russia for prompt crew rescue after Soyuz accident
Dec 21, 2018 (Sputnik)
"During a solemn event, Roscosmos and NASA officials thanked crews... for their outstanding support in an emergency," the statement said. The military added tha...
NASA astronaut, crewmates return to Earth after 197-Day mission in space
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
Aunon-Chancellor and her crewmates, Expedition 57 Commander Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) and Soyuz Commander Sergey Prokopyev, launched June 6...
Astronauts land from ISS stint marred by air leak, rocket failure
Dec 20, 2018 (AFP)
A Soyuz spacecraft ferrying Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, NASA's Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos landed safely in Kaza...
Queen guitarist Brian May releases tribute to NASA spacecraft
Dec 19, 2018 (AFP)
The US space agency's New Horizon's spacecraft will soon make the most distant flyby of a cosmic object ever, zipping by an object called Ultima Thule -- a bill...
Super-Fast 3-Hour Manned Flights to ISS to Begin in 18 Months
Dec 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
"We are planning to repeat the launch of the Progress cargo spacecraft in an ultra-short two-rotation scheme next March. The flight time is three hours. In a ye...
A method to monitor indoor crop health no matter what planet you're on
Dec 18, 2018 (SPX)
In work published in a recent issue of Applications in Plant Sciences, Dr. Robert Ferl and colleagues at the University of Florida Space Plants Lab developed a ...
Russian Progress freighter to fly to ISS under short scheme for second time
Dec 17, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The launch of the freighter is scheduled for March 28. It will have to orbit Earth twice and dock to the ISS three hours after the lift-off. However, this will...
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo reaches space for first time
Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)
The brief, suborbital flight - with two pilots on board - was a key milestone for the company headed by British tycoon Richard Branson, who is striving to send ...
No drill traces detected on photos of damaged Soyuz protection plates
Dec 14, 2018 (Sputnik)
Specialists who are carrying out investigation into the August's incident when a hole was discovered in the hull of the Russian Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft have foun...
Four NASA-sponsored experiments set to launch on Virgin Galactic spacecraft
Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)
The flight, scheduled for no earlier than Dec. 13, is Virgin Galactic's first mission for NASA. The agency's Flight Opportunities program helped the four experi...
Virgin Galactic reaches edge of space in historic flight
Dec 13, 2018 (UPI)
The company's rocket-powered VSS Unity took off from its Mojave Air & Space Port early Thursday. Its SpaceShipTwo separated from the WhiteKnightTwo twin-fuselag...
Virgin Galactic's new flight test to soar closer to edge of space
Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)
The US company run by British tycoon Richard Branson is aiming to be the first to take tourists on brief trips into microgravity. Virgin Galactic's fourth fligh...
Russian spacewalkers take sample of mystery hole at space station
Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)
Roscosmos space agency said the aim was to discover whether the "small but dangerous" hole had been made on Earth or in space. The two-millimetre cavity on the ...
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