NASA’s all-female Spacewalk: McClain and Ayers install new solar arrays — Watch live | Mint

[ad_1] Six years after missing out on history’s first women-only spacewalk due to a shortage of medium-sized spacesuits, Colonel Anne McClain of the US Army finally ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday alongside Air Force Major Nichole Ayers. The pair, both military pilots, had journeyed to the orbiting laboratory in March to…

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Who is astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla? The IAF officer set to pilot NASA’s Axiom Mission 4 to the ISS—all you need to know | Mint

[ad_1] Indian Air Force officer Shubhanshu Shukla is set to create history by piloting NASA and ISRO’s joint space mission to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year. According to a NASA statement last week, Shubhanshu Shukla will pilot the agency’s mission to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Florida “no earlier…

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Russia Spacecraft Docks To International Space Station, 4 Days After Delayed Launch

[ad_1] “Soyuz MS-25 has docked to the ISS,” Roscosmos said. Moscow: Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft successfully docked to the International Space Station Monday, four days after its launch was delayed due to a technical issue, the Roscosmos space agency said. On board is Belarus’ first female cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya, experienced Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and…

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