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Atlantis astronauts prepare for return to Earth

Washington, Nov 25 (DPA) NASA shuttle Atlantis undocked from the orbiting space station Wednesday for the final leg of a picture-perfect mission.

The undocking for its two-day journey back to Earth took place above the Pacific Ocean, north-east of New Guinea at 0953 GMT, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said in a statement. Landing is [...]

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Space-age scanners show how whale’s hearing is affected

Washington, Nov 25 (IANS) Space-age scanners are making sense of how sounds generated by navy sonar might affect the hearing of whale – or if they hear it at all.

The type of large industrial sized X-ray scanners that National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) uses to detect flaws in a space shuttle’s behemoth solid fuel [...]

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NASA’s next generation rocket makes booming debut

Washington, Oct 29 (DPA) A giant next generation space rocket Wednesday shot off its launchpad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida in the US for its very first test flight.

The 100-metre tall Ares I-X rocket sped into the sky over the Florida coast trailing a plume of flames and steam in a trial that [...]

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Chandrayaan-I a 110 percent success, asserts ISRO chief

Bangalore, Sep 25 (IANS) By finding water on the lunar surface, India’s maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 has completed Disagreeing with a section of the media, which dubbed the moon mission a ‘failure’ when it was abruptly aborted Aug 30 after Chandrayaan lost radio contact with the earth, Nair maintained that it was a wonderful mission.

‘Earlier [...]

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NASA thanks ISRO for discovering water on moon

New Delhi, Sep 25 (ANI): America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) thanked the efforts of the Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO) which traced water molecules on the moon’s surface.

ISRO on Thursday announced that its maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-I had traced water molecules on the moon’s surface.

“We want to thank ISRO for making [...]

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Moon water: NASA thanks Indian space agency for partnership

Washington, Sep 24 (IANS) India’s maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan has been successful in finding traces of water on the lunar surface, the US space agency NASA said here Thursday, and thanked the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for the partnership.

A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) official said that traces of water and hydroxyl, a [...]

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India’s lunar probe finds water traces on moon face

Bangalore, Sep 24 (IANS) In a discovery hailed as path-breaking, India’s maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan has found evidence of water on the moon.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) late Thursday confirmed that Chandrayaan-1 has detected presence of water on the moon.

‘Excellent quality data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument of the National Aeronautics and [...]

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‘Moon water is more precious than gold’

Chennai, Sep 24 (IANS) The sensational discovery of water molecules on the lunar surface by an instrument owned by the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and carried by India’s Chandrayaan-1 has been termed by scientists as a ‘very precious find’.

‘Moon water is more precious than gold,’ an Indian space scientist told IANS, declining [...]

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‘Moon water is more precious than gold’

Chennai, Sep 24 (IANS) The sensational discovery of water molecules on the lunar surface by an instrument owned by the US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and carried by India’s Chandrayaan-1 has been termed by scientists as a ‘very precious find’.

‘Moon water is more precious than gold,’ an Indian space scientist told IANS, declining [...]

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India’s lunar mission finds water on moon

Bangalore/Washington/London/New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) In a discovery that has rocked the scientific establishment and hailed as path-breaking, India’s maiden lunar mission has found evidence of water on the moon.

‘The moon has distinct signatures of water,’ top American scientist Carle Pieters confirmed Thursday, a revelation that has brought space travel one big step from fiction [...]

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Indian scientists rejoice as Chandrayaan-1 traces ‘water’ in moon

New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) As news trickled out about Indian maiden lunar mission tracing water molecules on the moon’s surface, scientists rejoiced at the discovery and hope that it will pave the way for growing vegetation in the earth’s natural satellite in future.

‘I am really very happy to know that the the NASA payload [...]

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Indian spacecraft finds water on the moon

Bangalore/Chennai, Sep 24 (IANS) In a sensational scientific discovery, India’s maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 has found evidence of water on the moon.

‘The moon has distinct signatures of water,’ top American scientist Carle Pieters confirmed Thursday.

‘The evidence of water molecules on the surface of the moon was found by the moon mineralogy mapper (M3) of the [...]

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India’s mooncraft ‘discovers’ water on moon: US scientist

Bangalore/Chennai, Sep 24 (IANS) India’s maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-1 found evidence of water on the surface of the moon, a top American scientist confirmed Thursday.

‘The moon has distinct signatures of water. The evidence of water molecules on the surface of the moon was found by the moon mineralogy mapper (M3) of the US-based National Aeronautics [...]

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Keeping nutrients in astronauts’ food vital during long space flights

Washington, August 16 (ANI): A new study has determined that keeping nutrients in astronauts’ food is vital during long space flights.

Maintaining the health of the crew aboard a spacecraft is a critical issue especially during extended trips.

Because foods may lose their [...]

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