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NASA wishes to visit the Sun in 2015!

Sameer Kumar — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:39:27 +0000

We have created amazing fuss and plenty of intrigue about Mars and even as the Red Planet is still being explored, NASA has decided that it will try and get close to the sun and do that in seething hot conditions which would surely put to test...

In video: Nasa's 50 years in space

Madhuri Katti — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:09:15 +0000

The US space agency’s five decades in space have given the world many memorable moving images. The BBC News website has collated just some of the many gripping moments of footage from the agency’s...

59 big bangs Hubble space telescope snaps galaxies as they smash into each other

Harsh — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:04:34 +0000

New images taken by the Hubble space telescope show galaxies spinning, sliding and smashing into each nother, wreaking stellar destruction that will give birth to new and larger...

How astronauts risk cancer and premature ageing by travelling in space

Harsh — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:56:40 +0000

Astronauts who spend too much time in space may be at risk of premature ageing and cancer, research suggests.

Urine to be recycled as drinking water

Saikat — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:36:56 +0000

It may seem to be weird, but a day might come when your packaged drinking water is recycled urine. If NASA is successful in its tests, you may end up drinking recycled urine. The recycling of urine to drinking water is part of a larger project...

NASA to develop fully disposable satellites

Jolly — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:22:58 +0000

Orbiting satellites have given us the ability to develop some machines and gadgets that no one would ever have thought of. These machines are gadgets have become an integral part of our daily routine, be it GPS systems, mobile phones or...

Space exploration to be fueled by nanotechnology propulsion technology

Gautam — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:36:17 +0000

In the field of space rocket engines are dependant on chemical propulsion and almost all of the spacecrafts are using some kind of chemical rocket for launching and attitude control. Researchers have been studying electric propulsion and EP...

Space agencies join hands for future space programs

Jolly — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:53:59 +0000

Fourteen Space agencies have joined hands to coordinate their space exploration efforts to pave a way for a truly planet-wide space exploration program. The meeting held was the first since all of them met at a NASA hosted conference during...

Droids to take over heavy satellites for space exploration

Vikas Shekhawat — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:18:56 +0000

Giving a fillip to the Star War saga, droids made by MIT undergrads are finally making their presence at the ISS. Developed in collaboration with NASA and DoD, the first prototype of the droid was tested at NASA’s KC-135 reduced gravity...

NASA Scientist Probe Lunar Dust Properties and Behavior

Irani — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:16:49 +0000

Astronauts will be back on the moon by 2018, and the NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration is busy readying the mission. But, the NASA scientists are also worried that they’ll have to deal with lots of moon-dust. Walking on the moon...