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  Oscars 2021: Chloe Zhao Is Second Woman Best Director, 11 Years After Kathryn Bigelow's Win

  Zhao follows in the footsteps of Kathryn Bigelow, who broke the glass ceiling for woman directors in 2010 when she won the prize for The Hurt Locker.

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  NASA Sued by US Company in Space Habitat Test Data Dispute

  A Nevada, US-based space technology company Bigelow Aerospace is suing NASA, claiming the space agency owes it more than $1 million (roughly Rs. 7.3 crores) for work done during months of space station air performance tests last year.

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  Women’s Day: Best Women-Led Movies and Female Directors

  International Women’s Day 2021: the best movies from female directors, and women-led movies from India and internationally. Gunjan Saxena, Neerja, Wonder Woman, Thappad, Zoya Akhtar, Meghna Gulzar, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire are part of our list.

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  NASA Selects 6 Firms To Develop Habitats For Mars Mission

  In a bid to help advance the manned flight to Red Planet, the US space agency has selected six US companies to develop ground prototypes and concepts for deep space habitats.

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  Nasa Selects Six Firms to Develop Habitats for Mars Mission

  The selected companies are Bigelow Aerospace, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK, Space Systems, and NanoRacks.

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  Astronauts Enter Inflatable Room At Space Station

  Astronauts entered an inflatable add-on room at the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday for the first time since it was fully installed last month, NASA said.

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  Astronauts Get First Look Inside Space Station's New Inflatable Module

  Station flight engineers Jeff Williams and Oleg Skripochka opened the hatch to the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module at 8.47am GMT on Monday.

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  Nasa's Jeff Williams to Step Into Expandable Space Habitat on Monday

  Expandable habitats are designed to take up less room when being launched but provide greater volume for living and working in space once expanded.

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  Nasa Successfully Deploys Space Station's Inflatable Room

  "A very successful day today with the expansion of the first expandable human-rated habitat to ever be flown into space."

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  Prototype Space Station Module Inflated On NASA's Second Try

  Astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Saturday inflated an experimental fabric module that may provide a less expensive and safer option for housing crews during long stays in space, a NASA TV broadcast showed.

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  NASA To Try Again To Inflate Spare Room In Space

  NASA will try again Saturday to inflate an add-on room at the International Space Station, after the first attempt ran into problems due to too much friction.

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  Expandable Space Habitat Fails to Inflate in Nasa's First Test

  The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, failed to unfurl as expected, mission commentator Dan Huot said during a Nasa TV broadcast.

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  Temporary Space Station Habitat Fails To Inflate

  NASA aborted an attempt to deploy a temporary habitat at the International Space Station after it failed to inflate to full size on Thursday.

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  Astronauts Set To Live In First Expandable Space Habitat

  Final preparations were underway today for the expansion of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) -- an expandable habitat for astronauts crucial for future deep space exploration -- which was installed at the International Space Station (ISS) in April.

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  ISS Astronauts Set to Live in First Expandable Space Habitat

  Crew entry into Beam, which has an expanded habitable volume of 565 cubic feet (16 cubic meters), is planned for June 2.