Tag: NASA
Who Is Diksha Shinde? 14-year-old From Pune Gets Selected To Work At NASA
While many prodigies in India have either been selected by NASA or other prestigious global institutions for research or fellowship, a Pune teenager’s claim of being selected by NASA left netizens stunned as they smelled something fishy. Several news outlets including Lokmat and ANI reported that Diksha Shinde, a 14-year-old girl from Aurangabad, was selected as a panellist on NASA’s prestigious MSI Fellowships Virtual Panel. ....
Sun Block: NASA's Mars Missions Will Halt Communication
NASA will halt commanding its Mars missions for the next few weeks as Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the Sun, the US space agency has said. ....
SpaceX Might Launch 1st Starship Into Orbit In January: Elon Musk
SpaceX, run by tech billionaire Elon Musk, will try to fly a Starship into orbit for the first time early next year, if all goes according to plan. ....
Avenge The Dinosaurs With Asteroid Defence Mission: SpaceX Chief Elon Musk Tells NASA
Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday said that NASA's asteroid defence mission will avenge the wipe out of dinosaurs from the face of Earth. ....
Picked For NASA’s 2021 Astronaut Class, Indian Origin Anil Menon Is SpaceX's First Flight Surgeon
Indian-origin Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel with the US Air Force and SpaceX's first flight surgeon, has been selected by NASA among the 10 new astronauts who could fly to the Moon someday. ....
2021 6th Hottest Year, Last 8 Years The Warmest: NASA
Earth's global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth warmest year on record, and the past eight years are the warmest, according to an independent analysis done by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA. ....
NASA Citizen Scientist Spots Jupiter-like Planet
A citizen scientist has discovered a giant gaseous planet about 379 light-years from Earth, orbiting a star with the same mass as the Sun, NASA has said. ....
Israel Joins NASA-led Artemis Space Mission To Land Humans On Moon, Mars
Israel has signed the Artemis Accords and joined the US-led programme to land human beings on the Moon by 2025 and later on Mars, the Israel Space Agency (ISA) said. ....
NASA's Perseverance Completes 1st Year On Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover has successfully completed the first year since touching down on Mars on February 18, 2021. ....
Scientists To Study Lunar Rocket Crash On March 4
A team of scientists are preparing to study a wayward rocket stage that is poised to hit the moon on Friday. ....
