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NASA successfully deploys BEAM, first inflatable room attached to International Space Station
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has successfully deployed the first experimental inflatable room attached to the International Space Station (ISS). The experimental inflatable room dubbed as BEAM (Bigelow Expandable Activity Module) was deployed after it was successfully expanded and pressurized. Key facts The inflatable room BEAM has been built by Nevada Company Bigelow ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2016
Topics: BEAM • International Space Station • NASA • Science and Technology • Space technology • UPSC
Sunita Williams: second woman in history to take command of ISS
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams took over the command of International Space Station (ISS). The traditional ceremony of change-of-command, Expedition 33 Sunita Williams took over the command from Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka in the Destiny Laboratory.
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2012
Topics: Akihiko Hoshide • Aquanauts • Astronaut • Gennady Padalka • Human activities • Human spaceflight • In spaceflight • International Space Station • Spaceflight • Sunita Williams • Women in engineering • Women in the United States Navy
Sunita Williams took off for her 2nd space journey
Indian-American record-making astronaut Sunita Williams along with her two other astronauts took off for her second space odyssey on a Russian Soyuz rocket. It took off successfully from a cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The other two members on board are Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency flight engineer Akihiko Hoshide. They are ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2012
Topics: Akihiko Hoshide • Aquanauts • Expedition 14 • Human spaceflight • In spaceflight • International Space Station • Spacecraft • Spaceflight • Sunita Williams • Women in engineering • Women in the United States Navy • Yuri Malenchenko
Dragon joins ISS
What is Dragon? Dragon is an unmanned Cargo capsule of The SpaceX company. In 2010 it became the first commercially-built and operated spacecraft to be recovered successfully from orbit. What is unique with this mission? With this rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS), Dragon has become the first became the first commercial spacecraft that ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2012
Topics: Dragon • Dragon 2 • Falcon 9 • International Space Station • Outer space • Spacecraft • Spaceflight • SpaceX • SpaceX CRS-15 • SpaceX Dragon
Mars500
An isolation experiment in Russia simulated a 520-day human mission to Mars. Six volunteers were locked away in windowless cells in June 2010. The $15-million Mars500 experiment, which ended on Nov. 4, was the first full-duration simulation of a human expedition to Mars. During the mission, the crew was hermetically isolated. After 250 days the ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Topics: Colonization of Mars • Exploration of Mars • Human mission to Mars • Human missions to Mars • International Space Station • Mars • Mars analog habitat • Mars Society • MARS-500 • Outer space • Space medicine • Spaceflight