Tag: #Astronauts
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Nicole Oliveira Becomes The Youngest Astronomer
Nicole Oliveira, an 8-year-old from Fortaleza, Brazil, has been named the world’s youngest astronomer. Nicole has joined the NASA-affiliated program and started searching for asteroids. She has so far traced 18 asteroids, a project NASA has dubbed the Asteroid Hunters, aimed at introducing young people to science by helping them make discoveries in the universe.…
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Youngest American to go into space is also a cancer survivor
Washington, Feb 23 (AFP/APP):By the end of the year, Hayley Arceneaux will be the youngest American in space and one of the first tourists to enter orbit unaccompanied by professional astronauts. It is a feat made all the more remarkable by her battle to overcome a childhood cancer that robbed the 29 year old of…
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NASA plans for return to Moon to cost $28 billion
Washington, Sept 22 (AFP/APP):NASA on Monday revealed its latest plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2024, and estimated the cost of meeting that deadline at $28 billion, $16 billion of which would be spent on the lunar landing module. Congress, which faces elections on November 3, will have to sign off on the…
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US space company completes first mission, astronauts return to Earth
Two American astronauts have returned to Earth from the International Space Station after completing the mission of the first spacecraft of the American private space company. The mission of the US company SpaceX’s “Dragon Capsule” spacecraft began in May and has now been successfully completed. The dragon capsule landed in the Gulf of Mexico and…
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NASA wants international partners to go to Moon too
Washington, Oct 21 (AFP/APP): As it looks to return to the Moon, NASA is open to the idea of international participation, which could mean a non-American setting foot on Earth’s natural satellite for the first time in history, global space chiefs said Monday. “I think there’s lots of room on the Moon, and we need…