New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) NASA has postponed the ambitious Artemis II mission to the Moon to March after detecting a hydrogen leak during a key fuelling test.The mission to launch a team of four astronauts on a journey around the Moon from Kennedy Space Center in Florida was initially targetted for February 6. It was later delayed to February 8 due to cold weather conditions with winds moving through Florida. “With the conclusion of the wet dress rehearsal today, we are moving off the February l…
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New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Amid cold weather conditions with winds moving through Florida, NASA announced that it now targets to launch the Artemis II mission to the Moon on February 8.Earlier, the mission set to launch a team of four astronauts on a journey around the Moon from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, was planned for launch on February 6.“Due to weather, we now plan to fuel our Artemis II Moon rocket on Monday, Feb. 2, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With this adjustment, the earli…
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) After 50 years of the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, when man first landed on the Moon, NASA is planning to send a team of four astronauts on a journey around the Moon on February 6.The Artemis II crew includes NASA’s commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) Jeremy Hansen.In preparation, the US space agency has moved the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to t…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Elon Musk-led SpaceX on Thursday successfully brought back four NASA astronauts to Earth in the first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS).NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov returned to Earth at 12:41 a.m. PST (2:11 pm IST) aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule.“Welcome home, Crew-11! At 3:41 am ET (0841 UTC), the SpaceX Dragon space…