London: A study of future human missions has indicated corporate researchers could be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s. The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows "a lot of excitement and interest from various companies" for such ventures, Daily Mail quoted Robert Bigelow, founder and president of the Las Vegas-based firm, as saying.
The projects range from pharmaceutical research aboard Earth-orbiting habitats, to missions to the Moon's surface, he said on Thursday, citing a draft of the report due to be released in a few weeks.
NASA intends to follow the International Space Station programme with astronaut visits to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars about a decade later.
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05:08 AM, May 25, 2013
Cape Canaveral, Florida: A music video shot aboard the International Space Station went viral on Monday, turning an astronaut into an overnight music sensation with his zero-gravity version of David Bowie's hit "Space Oddity." As the first Canadian to command the space station, a $100 million project of 15 nations, Chris Hadfield had already earned himself a place in the history books. But as he prepared to return home on...
11:58 AM, May 14, 2013
A music video shot aboard the International Space Station by a Canadian astronaut gets over 1.5 million hits on YouTube. ...
11:12 AM, May 14, 2013
This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Chris Hadfield recording the first music video from space Sunday May 12, 2013. The song was his cover version of David Bowie's Space Oddity. Hadfield and astronaut Thomas Marshburn are scheduled to return to earth. ...
11:22 AM, May 13, 2013
Florida, USA: Tiger Woods was nine shots out of the lead, not the best position at The Players Championship, especially since he had not even started his round. Perhaps the bigger surprise was the guy who posted the record-tying round Thursday. Roberto Castro had only played the TPC Sawgrass in a practice round. He made a debut he won't soon forget. There was the 9-iron to a foot on the...
08:52 AM, May 10, 2013
Bangalore: Officials of Income Tax department have seized Rs 1.7 crore cash from two premises of a city-based astrologer popular with politicians in Karnataka. Sources in the I-T department said the tax department had conducted the raids on Saturday after it received an input about the presence of Rs 40 lakh cash at the astrologer's two premises in Bangalore's RT Nagar and Ashiyana extension. "No electoral malpractice was however found...
02:11 PM, May 05, 2013
New Delhi: Sky gazers can look forward to a partial lunar eclipse that will take place Thursday and will be first of the three eclipses of 2013, officials said on Wednesday. Earth's shadow will cover one per cent of the moon and will just touch the moon's limb. The moon will not disappear and turn red but will get slightly darker than usual. "Only a tiny sliver of the Moon...
05:57 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Washington: An Indian scientist and his Taiwanese colleague have discovered a blue super-giant star located in the constellation Virgo, far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy. Over 55 million years ago, the star emerged in an extremely wild environment, surrounded by intensely hot plasma (a million degrees centigrade) and amidst raging cyclone winds blowing at four million kilometres per hour. Research using the Subaru Telescope, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's...
09:40 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Melbourne: US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, has laid out an ambitious plan of setting up a human colony on Mars within the next two decades. The 83-year-old astronaut, who joined the late Neil Armstrong for a globally watched and remembered leap on the Moon in 1969 has revealed his plans to have a human colony on the Red Planet by the mid 2030s...
03:30 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who is visiting India after returning to India after spending 127 days in space, interacted and shared her experiences with students at National Science Centre in New Delhi on Monday. Sunita Williams's itinerary includes visits to Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat. ...
05:24 PM, Apr 01, 2013
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is in India and she told students in Delhi she hasn't seen any aliens and said, interestingly, borders mean nothing from space. She spoke to CNN-IBN's Senior Editor Suhasini Haider about her experiences in the space. ...
02:37 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Clarke, who returned home early from Australia's Test tour to India with a back injury, was discharged early Monday morning, said Cricket Australia. ...
02:11 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the record for the longest space flight by a woman astronaut, has a date with India. She will start her India trip on April 1 from the national capital. She will be speaking with students at the National Science Centre in the national capital. Following that she will meet the President Pranab Mukerjee before leaving for Kolkata. ...
07:45 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the world record for the longest spaceflight by a female astronaut, will start her India trip on April 1 from the national capital. Williams will visit the National Science Centre (NSC) in the national capital on April 1 and interact with students and teachers. ...
05:00 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Gesta Final starts with the user joining the 82 rebels who in 1956 sailed to Cuba from Mexico aboard the Granma. ...
12:46 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Ruben Castro scored late to give Real Betis a 2-1 win over Osasuna as the Andalusian side rose to provisional fifth place in the Spanish league. ...
09:02 AM, Mar 09, 2013
Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro made a rare public appearance Sunday by joining the opening session of the National Assembly, state media reported amid speculation the gathering could give clues on planning for a future leadership succession. ...
06:18 AM, Feb 25, 2013
NASA has discovered the smallest known planet outside our solar system which is slightly larger than the Moon and orbits its Sun like host star every 13 days. NASA's Kepler space telescope detected the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to the Sun in a new planetary system. The planets are located in a system called Kepler-37, about 210 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. ...
11:44 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return from Cuba on Monday, more than two months after surgery for cancer that has jeopardized his 14-year rule of the South American OPEC nation. The middle-of-the-night homecoming implies some medical improvement - at least enough to handle a flight of several hours - and will again fire up supporters with hope that the socialist leader could return to active rule. ...
01:20 PM, Feb 19, 2013
