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NASA to Announce Astronauts Selected for Artemis II Lunar Flyby Mission
NASA plans on Monday to introduce the four astronauts for its Artemis II lunar flyby mission, set for launch as early as next year in what would be the first crewed voyage around the Moon since the end of the Apollo era more than 50 years…
Asteroid’s sudden flyby shows blind spot in planetary threat detection
WASHINGTON : The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth on Thursday, albeit one that posed no threat to humans, highlights a blind spot in our ability to predict those that could…
NASA’s Orion Craft Buzzes Past Moon, Feels Lunar Gravity In Historic Flyby
<!-- -->The Orion spacecraft is to take astronauts to the Moon in the coming yearsNew Delhi: Nasa's Orion spacecraft today flew past the moon, five days after it was launched off the Florida coast in the US. Orion is on a 25-day…
Watch: Athletes perform wingsuit fly-by of Taj Mahal-Sports News , Firstpost
Frederic Fugen performs during the project 'Taj Mahal Fly-by' in Agra. Image: Focus Sports/Red…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft makes closest flyby in more than 20 years of Jupiter’s moon…
NASA's Juno spacecraft has made the closest approach to Jupiter's tantalizing, icy moon Europa in more than 20 years.On Thursday, Juno zipped within 357 kilometres of Europa, thought to have an ocean flowing beneath its thick frozen crust,…
ALMA catches ‘intruder’ redhanded in rarely detected stellar flyby event
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) made a rare detection of a likely stellar flyby event in the Z Canis Majoris (Z CMa) star system. An intruder -- not…