Contrary to a recent social media post from President Trump, Starliner astronaut Sunita Williams says she and crewmate Barry “Butch” Wilmore have not been “virtually abandoned” in space, despite a mission that’s been extended from a little more than one week to more than nine months. “I don’t think I’m …
A day after launching from the Kennedy Space Center, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft caught up with the International Space Station and moved in for docking Sunday, bringing a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut to the outpost to join two Starliner astronauts for a five-month tour of duty. The …
MOSCOW: A Russian spacecraft with three astronauts successfully docked Monday at the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus reached the space outpost after Saturday’s blastoff from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan that followed an …
BENGALURU: In a firm indication that India’s endeavours of sending astronauts to space will not be a one-off show of strength but a programme for sustained human presence in space, the process to select the second batch of astronauts for follow-up missions could begin in six months. The current astronaut …
