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SpaceX sends Saudi Arabia's first astronauts in decades to International Space Station
Fp Staff •SpaceX's first-stage booster landed back at Cape Canaveral eight minutes after liftoff — a special treat for the launch day crowd, which included about 60 Saudis
Stoking Conspiracies: Russian space agency boss says that 'no proof' US ever landed on the Moon
Mehul Das •Russia's Roscosmos space agency's former boss Dmitry Rogozin, believes that the US Apollo 11 mission was faked and that American astronauts never landed on the Moon. He further questions why, all of a sudden, did the US stop sending manned missions to the Moon.
Explained: Russia's plan to rescue its trapped astronauts from International Space Station
•The need for a rescue mission arose after the Soyuz spacecraft docked at the space station began spewing a spray of white particles on 14 December, raising concerns that a portion of the capsule could overheat during flight, rendering the craft unsafe to transport astronauts back to Earth
To the Moon and Back: All you need to know about NASA's Artemis 1 mission
•The giant Space Launch System rocket will make its maiden flight from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday
Fuel leak foils NASA's dress rehearsal for moon rocket
•The launch team had just begun loading fuel into the core stage of the rocket when the hydrogen leak cropped up
Here are the eight space tourism options that will give you a taste for the unknown
•Elon Musk's SpaceX has four private space tours - Inspiration4, AX-1, space adventure and dearMoon - lined up with various private players travelling to the moon or orbiting the earth.
ISRO successfully conducts hot test on Gaganyaan's service module propulsion system
Tech2 News Staff •ISRO's PSLV might be soon built, end to end, by private Indian industry partners instead of the Indian space agency using its resources to do so.
Astronauts' ‘floating pizza party’ on International Space Station leaves netizens stunned; watch video here
Trendingdesk •French astronaut Thomas Pesquet recently shared a video of fellow astronauts enjoying pizza aboard the spacecraft
ISRO successfully conducts hot test of its Vikas engine for Gaganyaan
Tech2 News Staff •The test was done for the core L110 liquid stage of the human-rated GSLV MkIII vehicle, as part of the engine qualification requirements for the Gaganyaan programme.
After 13 years, two Chinese taikonauts complete first spacewalk at new space station
•For seven hours, two astronauts — Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo — wore their newly developed suits that weigh about 130 kgs.