October 19, 2026
One of two trained pilots will spend about a week aboard Tiangong as a payload specialist running Pakistani experiments. The selected candidate has not been named.
June 27, 2026
China has named Muhammad Zeeshan Ali and Khurram Daud as the first foreign astronaut candidates for its space station programme, with one to become the first non-Chinese national aboard Tiangong.
Tom Hanks honors the hero of real life he once presented in a popular Oscar -winning film, CNN said CNN on Saturday. Following the death of astronaut Jim Lovell on Friday, Hanks shared a painful position of social media on his Instagram, writing: “There are people who dare, dreaming and leading to places that would not go alone.” “Jim Lovell, who had long been in space and for more than any other person on our planet, was this guy,” Hanks added. The actor depicted Lovell in the film directed by the 1995 Ron Howard “Apollo 13”, which mentioned the story
October 9, 2024
NASA astronaut Suni Williams gestures as she prepares to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Integration Building. — AFP NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), is preparing to exercise her democratic right in the upcoming US presidential election, despite being about 400 miles above Earth. Williams will join a select group of space-based voters, including David Wolfe, the first to vote from space, and Kate Robbins, who voted from the ISS in 2020. Since 1997, astronauts have been able to vote from space after the Texas legislature passed a bill allowing NASA astronauts to
June 8, 2024
This image courtesy of Nasa taken on June 7, 2024 shows the official N portrait of astronaut William Anders taken on September 9, 1967. — AFP Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took one of the most popular photos in space, has died in a plane crash at the age of 90. In the sea off Washington state, a small plane he was flying crashed according to officials, according to BBC. Anders’ son, Greg, confirmed Friday afternoon that his father’s body had been recovered. “The family is devastated. He was a great pilot. He will be missed,” a family statement
January 19, 2024
CAPE CANAVERAL: Turkey’s first astronaut and three other crew members representing Europe launched from Florida on Thursday on a journey to the International Space Station in the latest commercially organized mission by Texas startup Axiom Space. A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying the Axiom quartet lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket about an hour before sunset from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, beginning a planned 36-hour flight to the orbiting laboratory. The launch was broadcast live on a joint Axiom-SpaceX webcast. The autonomous Crew Dragon was expected to arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) early Saturday
November 29, 2023
BENGALURU: NASA will train an Indian astronaut for a trip to the International Space Station as early as next year, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on Wednesday, amid deepening space ties between India and the United States. “There is an opportunity to share science,” Nelson said, speaking at an event in Bangalore, where he is due to inspect the NISAR satellite on Thursday. NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) is a low Earth orbit observatory developed jointly by NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization). Roughly the size of an SUV, the satellite is due to launch from India in the first quarter
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