The launch of a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, which was supposed to bring a Soyuz MS-25 manned spacecraft into orbit, has been aborted by an automatic safety system about 20 seconds before its scheduled liftoff on Thursday. The crew of three astronauts was reportedly declared safe. The Soyuz was scheduled to …
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The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched the first of a series of test flights on Saturday in preparation for the ambitious human spaceflight mission – Gaganyaan – scheduled for 2025. The Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission 1 was scheduled to lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center …
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Brigadier General Hamid Vahedi, the commander of Iran’s Army Air Force, was present on Thursday for the operational phase of the 10th Fadaeian-e Harim-e Velayat (Defenders of Velayat Sanctuary) air drills. According to Iranian media, the drill was carried out for the first time in a decentralized manner, with units …
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The crew of the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft is set to stay on the Tianhe core module for 183 days – the longest in Chinese history – before returning to Earth in April 2022. The taikonauts are 55-year-old Zhai Zhigang, 41-year-old Wang Yaping, and 41-year-old Ye Guangfu. The last crew returned to …
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But today, just several days before the anniversary of Gagarin’s journey is celebrated on April 12, RT’s guest cosmonauts will be answering questions from the audience about their travels and day-to-day life on the ISS. Посмотреть эту публикацию в Instagram Публикация от RT (@rt) Andrey Borisenko was part of two …
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According to a Friday tweet from the Republican Party’s Twitter account, some of President Trump’s priorities for a second term include a “permanent presence” on the Moon and the first manned mission to Mars. “Who in the f**k gives a flying f**k about putting motherf**kers on The Moon and Mars?” …
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NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 commander Chris Cassidy, as well as two Russian cosmonauts, Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, touched down some 150km (90 miles) southeast of Zhezqazghan, a city in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan, at 2:54am GMT (around 6am Moscow time) on Thursday. The descent, which was broadcast by the …
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The mission is scheduled for April 2019. Representatives of NASA has published a video that shows animation test of a manned lunar-Martian ship called the Orion Ascent Abort-2. The mission is scheduled for April 2019. The video was published on YouTube-channel NASA Johnson. The experts also explained that the real …
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