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NASA Official Recalls Near Miss With Russian Spacecraft: "Less Than 10 Metres Apart"
Former astronaut Colonel Melroy stated that hundreds of bullet-fast fragments of debris would have shot around Earth if the satellites had collided.
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"Everybody Counting On...": Astronaut Chris Hadfield On ISRO's Sun Mission
As the countdown for India's first solar mission, Aditya-L1, to the Sun has begun, former commander of the International Space Station Chris Hadfield hailed India's "technological prowess" and said that everybody on Earth is "counting on technology".
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Donald Trump Makes a Splash in NFT Arena, Releases 45,000 Fantasy NFTs
Donald Trump, the former President of the US, has released a collection of 45,000 fantasy cards called the ‘Trump Digital Trading Cards’. These digital cards display dramatic avatars of trump, showing him as a super-human, astronaut, golf-player, and a boxer, among others.
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Ahead Of Christmas, Donald Trump Sells $99 NFT Trading Cards Of Himself
It could be the perfect Christmas present for the Donald Trump fan in your life -- a $99 digital trading card showing the former president in various guises including a cowboy, astronaut and fighter pilot.
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"The Sun Is Actually White": Ex NASA Astronaut Confirms Space Fact
For those who think that the Sun is actually yellow, that is not its true colour. And on Tuesday, former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly confirmed this space fact.
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NASA, Axiom Space, SpaceX Delay Axiom Mission 1 Undocking From ISS Over Unfavourable Weather Conditions
The Ax-1 mission is the first-ever fully private crewed mission to the space station. Consisting of four-member, the mission was launched on April 8 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Ax-1: First All-Private Astronaut Mission Reaches International Space Station
Ax-1 or Axiom Mission 1, the mission led by former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, reached the reached the International Space Station (ISS) early on Saturday. The mission is being hailed as a critical step toward commercialising the “Low Earth Orbit” sector of space.
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NASA Announces 10 New Astronaut Trainees From Pool Of 12,000 Applicants
NASA announced Monday its 10 latest trainee astronauts, who include a firefighter turned Harvard professor, a former member of the national cycle team, and a pilot who led the first-ever all-woman F-22 formation in combat.
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NASA Says US Astronaut Mission To Moon Will Wait Until 2025
NASA will not send an astronaut mission to the moon until 2025 at the earliest, the U.S. space agency's administrator said on Tuesday, pushing back by at least a year a timeline originally set under former President Donald Trump.
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Calls Talk of UFOs 'the Height of Foolishness' in Interview
In an interview, the astronaut and former International Space Station commander talked about a one-way trip to Mars, landing a rover on the red planet, and addressed some of the recent talk about UFO sightings.
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On Rakesh Sharma's Birthday, Clip Of "Sare Jahan Se Accha" Floods Twitter
Rakesh Sharma turned 72 today. The astronaut made history by becoming the first Indian to travel to space. On the astronaut's birthday, a video clip of the famous conversation with former prime minister Indira Gandhi is being widely shared on Twitter.
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Justin Trudeau Shuffles Cabinet After Indian-Origin Minister Quits
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday made a former astronaut his new foreign minister in a Cabinet reshuffle, sparked by the sudden resignation of Indian-origin Canadian Sikh Navdeep Bains, the minister of innovation, science and industry.
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Meet Bob And Doug - Best Friends On Historic SpaceX-NASA Mission
Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, the astronauts set to launch into orbit on a SpaceX rocket Wednesday, are both former military pilots, both recruited by NASA in 2000, and both married to fellow astronauts.
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Christina Koch Sets Record for Longest Spaceflight by a Woman
NASA astronaut Christina Koch on Saturday set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, eclipsing the record of 288 days set by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson in 2016-17.
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Chandrayaan-2 A Milestone For The Entire World: Former NASA Astronaut
Former NASA astronaut Jerry M Linenger said the south pole of the moon is a fantastic region to explore. The entire planet will benefit from the mission.
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NASA Official Recalls Near Miss With Russian Spacecraft: "Less Than 10 Metres Apart"
Former astronaut Colonel Melroy stated that hundreds of bullet-fast fragments of debris would have shot around Earth if the satellites had collided.
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"Everybody Counting On...": Astronaut Chris Hadfield On ISRO's Sun Mission
As the countdown for India's first solar mission, Aditya-L1, to the Sun has begun, former commander of the International Space Station Chris Hadfield hailed India's "technological prowess" and said that everybody on Earth is "counting on technology".
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Donald Trump Makes a Splash in NFT Arena, Releases 45,000 Fantasy NFTs
Donald Trump, the former President of the US, has released a collection of 45,000 fantasy cards called the ‘Trump Digital Trading Cards’. These digital cards display dramatic avatars of trump, showing him as a super-human, astronaut, golf-player, and a boxer, among others.
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Ahead Of Christmas, Donald Trump Sells $99 NFT Trading Cards Of Himself
It could be the perfect Christmas present for the Donald Trump fan in your life -- a $99 digital trading card showing the former president in various guises including a cowboy, astronaut and fighter pilot.
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"The Sun Is Actually White": Ex NASA Astronaut Confirms Space Fact
For those who think that the Sun is actually yellow, that is not its true colour. And on Tuesday, former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly confirmed this space fact.
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NASA, Axiom Space, SpaceX Delay Axiom Mission 1 Undocking From ISS Over Unfavourable Weather Conditions
The Ax-1 mission is the first-ever fully private crewed mission to the space station. Consisting of four-member, the mission was launched on April 8 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Ax-1: First All-Private Astronaut Mission Reaches International Space Station
Ax-1 or Axiom Mission 1, the mission led by former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, reached the reached the International Space Station (ISS) early on Saturday. The mission is being hailed as a critical step toward commercialising the “Low Earth Orbit” sector of space.
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NASA Announces 10 New Astronaut Trainees From Pool Of 12,000 Applicants
NASA announced Monday its 10 latest trainee astronauts, who include a firefighter turned Harvard professor, a former member of the national cycle team, and a pilot who led the first-ever all-woman F-22 formation in combat.
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NASA Says US Astronaut Mission To Moon Will Wait Until 2025
NASA will not send an astronaut mission to the moon until 2025 at the earliest, the U.S. space agency's administrator said on Tuesday, pushing back by at least a year a timeline originally set under former President Donald Trump.
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Calls Talk of UFOs 'the Height of Foolishness' in Interview
In an interview, the astronaut and former International Space Station commander talked about a one-way trip to Mars, landing a rover on the red planet, and addressed some of the recent talk about UFO sightings.
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On Rakesh Sharma's Birthday, Clip Of "Sare Jahan Se Accha" Floods Twitter
Rakesh Sharma turned 72 today. The astronaut made history by becoming the first Indian to travel to space. On the astronaut's birthday, a video clip of the famous conversation with former prime minister Indira Gandhi is being widely shared on Twitter.
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Justin Trudeau Shuffles Cabinet After Indian-Origin Minister Quits
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday made a former astronaut his new foreign minister in a Cabinet reshuffle, sparked by the sudden resignation of Indian-origin Canadian Sikh Navdeep Bains, the minister of innovation, science and industry.
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Meet Bob And Doug - Best Friends On Historic SpaceX-NASA Mission
Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, the astronauts set to launch into orbit on a SpaceX rocket Wednesday, are both former military pilots, both recruited by NASA in 2000, and both married to fellow astronauts.
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Christina Koch Sets Record for Longest Spaceflight by a Woman
NASA astronaut Christina Koch on Saturday set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, eclipsing the record of 288 days set by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson in 2016-17.
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Chandrayaan-2 A Milestone For The Entire World: Former NASA Astronaut
Former NASA astronaut Jerry M Linenger said the south pole of the moon is a fantastic region to explore. The entire planet will benefit from the mission.
