Crew-3 appeared to lift off without a hitch on Wednesday evening, as was seen in footage shared by SpaceX, carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, as well as Matthias Maurer – a German national with the European Space Agency – into orbit to rendezvous with the …
Read More »Gare du Nord station in Paris evacuated over suspicious baggage (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Hundreds of people were forced to stand outside the station on Wednesday after police ordered its evacuation. Transport Express Regional (TER) tweeted that transport from the station has been interrupted, while the company running the Paris Metro specified that trains were not running in either direction between Paris Gare de Lyon and Paris …
Read More »Blue Origin unveils futuristic sketches of orbital station as Jeff Bezos hopes to ‘reimagine living & working in space by 2030’
Bezos’ aerospace firm and its partner Sierra Space unveiled the plans on Monday in a joint press release, saying they are aiming to build “a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station” dubbed the “Orbital Reef,” which they intend to have up and running in some capacity sometime between 2025 …
Read More »WATCH: International Space Station rotating 57 degrees mid-orbit during engine test of spacecraft bringing back Russian film crew
The footage from NASA’s broadcast on Friday captured the ISS changing its position towards the Earth quite significantly, prompting the American astronauts to sound a distress call. The station rotated as a result of an engine thrust on the Soyuz MS-18, which had been docked to the ISS. The Russian …
Read More »International Space Station accidentally rotates 57 degrees mid-orbit while hosting director & actress filming milestone movie
The ISS is currently hosting director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild, who have made a short trip to the satellite to create ‘The Challenge,’ the first feature film to be recorded in space. The accident happened when the Russian cosmonauts began testing on the Soyuz MS-18, a spacecraft currently …
Read More »China launches 2nd manned flight to Tiangong space station
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 …
Read More »New London tube map sees station names replaced by prominent black people since Roman invasion
On Tuesday, TfL posted its own contribution to Black History Month. The map sees the names of London’s tube stops replaced by those of 272 notable black people and organisations linked to the capital’s black community. The map, which has been released to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Black …
Read More »US invited to station troops & rocket systems in Ukraine in potential major escalation of tense standoff across border with Russia
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Reznikov revealed he had made the request as part of a visit to the United States, during a meeting with the Jamestown Foundation, a think-tank which the Russian government has previously accused of spreading propaganda against the country. “It is …
Read More »WATCH: Astronauts at China’s new space station conduct their 1st spacewalk
Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng, and Liu Boming docked with the Tiangong space station in June, beginning a three-month stay in space that represents China’s longest crewed mission to date. On Sunday morning, Liu and Tang exited the station’s core module – the first of two planned spacewalks during their mission. …
Read More »Air force station rocked by blasts in suspected drone attack in India’s Jammu and Kashmir
The overnight strike was confirmed by the Indian Air Force early on Sunday. The military said the attack did not inflict any damage to any sensitive hardware stationed at the supposedly high-security installation. “Two low intensity explosions were reported early Sunday morning in the technical area of Jammu Air Force …
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