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Sunita Williams took off for her 2nd space journey

July 18, 2012

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 ..

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Europe’s most recent spacecraft to track weather in orbit

July 8, 2012

The most recent spacecraft in Europe’s long-running Meteosat series has moved into orbit on an Ariane rocket. The spacecraft being guided into a position about 36,000 kms above the Earth from where it can keep an unceasing eye on developing ..

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Liu Yang: China’s 1st woman Astronaut into Space

June 23, 2012

With the launch of Shenzhou-9 space mission china has reached a new milestone as its crew members comprise 3 astronauts including China’s first woman astronaut Liu Yang. She has served as a cargo pilot in the People’s Liberation Army Air ..

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China sends its 4th Human Spaceflight Shenzhou-9 into Space

June 23, 2012

Shenzhou-9, China’s 4th human spaceflight launched from the Jiuquan satellite launch centre in Gansu state. The spacecraft which is 30.3 feet long and 9.1 feet diameter is on the 1st manned docking mission and it will lay the foundation for ..

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Dragon joins ISS

May 26, 2012

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 ..

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China launches 2 more satellites

May 1, 2012

China successfully launched 2 more satellites for its proposed Beidou Global Navigation and Positioning Network being built to counter the US Global Position System (GPS). With these two satellites, China has so far launched 13 satellites to form part of ..

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