New York, April 11 (IANS) Four astronauts who ventured where no human has gone before in deep space returned home, touching down in the Pacific, becoming pathfinders for humanity’s return to the moon and journeys beyond.It was a splash heard around a crisis-ridden world where millions watched on Friday, looking for a sign of hope and achievement.“What a journey”, exclaimed Reid Wiseman, the commander of Artemis II, when they landed.It was indeed a spectacular space odyssey of nine days and…
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Washington, April 7 (IANS) Astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission have set a new record for the farthest distance travelled by humans from Earth, marking a major milestone in the first crewed lunar mission in over five decades.Four astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — crossed the historic threshold six days into their mission, travelling 248,655 miles from Earth and eventually reaching about 252,756 miles at the farthest poin…
Florida, April 2 (IANS) NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission lifted off from the US state of Florida, carrying four astronauts on the first crewed flight around the Moon in more than 50 years. The Space Launch System rocket, with the Orion spacecraft on top, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 6:35 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Wednesday.It is NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis program. The four-member crew consists of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along …
Washington, April 1 (IANS) NASA is set to launch four astronauts on a landmark mission around the moon on Wednesday evening, marking the first human journey beyond low Earth orbit in more than 50 years. The Artemis II mission, with a launch window opening at 6:24 p.m. ET from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, will send the crew on an approximately 10-day trip around the moon and back.The flight is being billed as the highest-stakes mission for NASA in decades and a critical step toward retu…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has completed final preparations for the launch of its ‘Artemis II’ mission — which is scheduled to lift off as early as April 1 from the Kennedy Space Center.According to NASA, the mission will mark the first crewed flight under its Artemis programme, sending four astronauts on an approximately 10-day journey around the Moon.Artemis II will also be the first time humans travel beyond low-Earth orbit since th…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday said he is aiming to build a self-growing city on Moon in less than 10 years, followed by human presence on Mars in about 20 years.According to the world’s richest man, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, “as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years”.In a post on his X social media platform, Musk said the mission of SpaceX remains the sa…
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) The six-wheeled Perseverance rover has completed the first drives on Mars that were planned by artificial intelligence (AI), NASA said.Conducted on December 8 and 10, 2025, the demonstration used generative AI to create waypoints for Perseverance. The complex decision-making task is typically performed manually by the mission’s human rover planners at the US space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.“This demonstration shows how far our capabil…