Houston: Indian-American NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and her Japanese colleague successfully replaced a vital power unit on the International Space Station using tools made out of a toothbrush.
The decision to use a simple toothbrush to clean a bolt that gave Williams and Akihiko Hoshide so much trouble during a marathon 8-hour spacewalk last week, was made during a brainstorming session between the astronauts and NASA engineers on the ground.
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06:26 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Washington: Six International Space Station (ISS) astronauts rushed to safety as a piece of a Russian satellite whizzed by. The astronauts orbiting 320 km above the planet were stirred from their slumber Saturday to jump into emergency escape pods. They were told by the ground control to scramble into two docked Soyuz spacecrafts in case a piece of a wrecked Russian satellite should smash into the ISS. The emergency was...
11:13 AM, Mar 25, 2012
Beijing: China is considering sending women astronauts into space during its space docking missions in 2012. Two female astronauts have been selected for possible flights when spacecraft Shenzhou-9 and 10 are scheduled to dock with space lab module Tiangong-1 in 2012, Chen Shanguang, director of the Astronaut Center of China (ACC), said. "We must assess both male and female astronauts to verify if human beings can live in space as...
05:08 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Washington: Astronauts on the first manned mission to Mars are considering to grow their own food in a hi-tech 'kitchen garden' onboard their spaceship, according to NASA. Supplying enough food for a round trip to the Red Planet is one of the greatest challenges facing mission planners. Now the US space agency claims the astronomers could tend 'kitchen gardens' of salad and vegetables to cater to their daily diet. NASA...
06:23 PM, Aug 29, 2011
New Delhi: Don't let this news gross you out. The Atlantis crew is testing a urine recycling system developed by NASA that is capable of turning the urine of astronauts into a yummy sports drink. NASA has adopted the "forward osmosis bags", used by soldiers to clean dirty fluids, for use in space, according to several news reports on Monday. NASA scientist Howard Levine was quoted by the 'Wired' magazine...
01:30 PM, Jul 11, 2011
Cape Canaveral: The shuttle Endeavour and space station crews gathered on Saturday for an unprecedented conversation with Pope Benedict, who asked how the space program can promote peace and if the astronauts pray while in orbit. "I think it must be obvious to you how we all live together on one Earth and how absurd it is that we fight and kill each one," the pope said. "When you are...
07:14 AM, May 22, 2011
Yang Liwei, China's first man in space has revealed it in his recent autobiography. ...
10:39 AM, May 13, 2010
Seven-day space flight planned, says ISRO chairman. ...
04:51 PM, Jan 27, 2010
Apollo 11 landed first men on moon. 3 years later, Apollo 17 landed the last. ...
12:56 AM, Jul 21, 2009
Apollo 11 astronauts get nostalgic on the 40th anniversary of moon landing. ...
11:32 AM, Jul 20, 2009
It's the third time this month that the space station was confronting a space junk. ...
09:33 AM, Mar 23, 2009
Astronauts finally ran a successful test on Wednesday. ...
06:19 PM, Nov 26, 2008
A water-recycling device will process the crew's urine for consumption. ...
10:32 PM, Nov 15, 2008
Astronauts onboard International Space Station will be voting in the prez polls. ...
02:48 PM, Oct 28, 2008
New Delhi: At 118/2 in the 22nd over, four time World Cup winners Australia would have been harbouring thoughts of a comprehensive morale boosting victory against Team India but what followed was a bizarre turn of events as the Aussies somehow managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at Bangalore's M Chinnaswamy stadium. A combination of poor shot selection and disciplined bowling by Indian spinners, Harbhajan Singh and...
09:22 AM, Dec 14, 2007
A panel details two astronauts getting drunk before takeoff. ...
12:30 PM, Jul 28, 2007
The report says astronauts are prone to heavy drinking before launch. ...
02:52 AM, Jul 28, 2007
Two US astronauts from Atlantis space shuttle finish final space walk on International Space Station. ...
05:19 PM, Jun 18, 2007
A hail storm has damaged the fuel tank of space shuttle Atlantis disrupting NASA's flight schedule for the year. ...
09:17 AM, Mar 28, 2007
