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India's moon mission on final leg to lunar orbit
New Delhi - India's first moon mission Chandrayaan-1 entered lunar space early Tuesday for its final journey into lunar orbit, news reports said. The operation to put Chandrayaan into lunar space went off very well. The complex manoeuvre was carried...
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NASA slowly disabling Phoenix Mars lander
Washington - NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is slowly dying on the red planet, after the US space agency shut off one of the craft's heaters in a bid to save energy. The move was designed to briefly extend the life of the craft, but as NASA gradually tur...
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2008-10-30 ] Category : [
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Space tourist Garriott, cosmonauts return to Earth
Moscow - A Russian Soyuz space capsule Friday returned to Earth safely, carrying its crew of Russian cosmonauts and a US space tourist. The capsule with Richard Garriott, a computer games designer and son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, who paid 30 ...
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2008-10-24 ] Category : [
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India's launches its first mission to the moon
New Delhi - India on Wednesday launched its first-ever mission to the moon, with the unmanned Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft blasting off from the Sriharikota spaceport in southern India on a two-year exploration. The 44-metre tall Polar Satellite Launch V...
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2008-10-22 ] Category : [
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