NASA Celebrates 97th Birthday Of Jim Lovell, The Real Life Tom Hanks Of Apollo 13 Mission
Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...
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Written in Granite: Flying fascinates, no matter how close
That isn’t real.” My immigrant grandfather Andrew said this in Greek to my parents as they watched the live broadcast on ...
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Gemini III: 60 Years Since First U.S. Two-Person Flight
On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...
'He's a trooper': Astronaut Butch Wilmore's daughter on his return to gravity
Astronaut Barry Wilmore is readjusting to Earth's gravity after an unplanned nine-month space mission. He and fellow ...
UPSC Key: Splashdown, Heatwave and Currency exchange rates
Why is urban heat island relevant to the UPSC exam? What is the significance of topics such as the global navigation satellite system, Houthis, and sonic weapon on both the preliminary and main exams?
This Word Means: Splashdown
It is the method favoured by American spacecraft – such as NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo – to re-enter Earth. In a ...
Secrets of new space race from dark death speech to astronauts who can't walk
While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...