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Boeing's Starliner is scheduled for its first crewed flight to the ISS on May 6, with NASA confirming the date. The spacecraft was recently moved to the Vertical Integration Facility and will be launched via ULA's Atlas V rocket. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will test the spacecraft’s capabilities over a 10-day mission.

Eight-member students' team from Young Tinker Space 2183 set up in Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla gets golden opportunity.

Solar eclipse is a rare phenomenon when the moon blocks the sun, casting a shadow on earth by concealing the view of the sun from the Earth.

Among the eight students who are making Odisha and VSSUT proud are Swagat Sekhar Panda, Debankar Subhram, Pallabi Parimita Nayak, Inayatulla Khan, Subhankar Nayak, Faizur Rahman, Ayushman Jena and Subhranshu Ranjan Das.

Suresh further added that the H5N1 virus has already been detected in species and has shown the ability to infect mammals including humans.

The quest to find the origins of Earth’s water led researchers to the massive find. The report suggests that the hidden ocean is concealed within a blue rock known as ‘ringwoodite’.

The approval came on March 19 after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement following the success of the mission on August 26, 2023.

NASA has been closely tracking the asteroid’s path and confirmed that it will maintain a safe distance from Earth, Times Now reported.

It was 'duty first' for Isro chief S Somnath on September 2, 2023, when he was diagnosed with cancer. After spending only four days in hospital, Somnath resumed duties as India was going to launch one of its most ambitious projects, Aditya-L1.

DRDO has conducted two successful flight tests of Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) missile on Wednesday and Thursday. The tests were conducted from a ground-based portable launcher at Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha.

At Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram, PM Modi said, "By 2035, India will have its own space station in space that will help us study the unknown expanses of space.

The INSAT-3DS is India’s third generation meteorological satellite and is fully funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy C. Dyson are set to reach the space station this month and in March.

Vyommitra is a name derived from two Sanskrit words namely, “Vyoma” (meaning Space) and “Mitra” (meaning Friend).

As Axiom Mission’s crew is preparing to land on Earth after serving their time at the International Space Centre (ISS), astronaut Marcus Wandt shared mesmerising views of the Earth from the ISS.