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NASA astronaut heads to International Space Station on Apollo 11 anniversary

Soyuz MS-13, carrying Roscosmos astronaut Alexander Skvortsov (commander), Luca Parmitano (flight engineer-1) from Italy and Andrew Morgan (flight engineer-2) o...

National Moon Day 2019: History and Significance of Moon Day

When anyone talks about Apollo 11 , the people who immediately come to mind are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin , the first two astronauts who stepped foot o...

World celebrates 50 years of Apollo 11 touchdown at Moon

Armstrong was the first to step onto the lunar surface, proclaiming for the ages: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". Clocks counted...

EPA Will Not Ban Pesticide Linked to Neurological Issues

Chlorpyrifos is manufactured by Indianapolis-based Dow Agrisciences LLC. President Barack Obama's administration initiated a blanket ban of chlorpyrifos in 20...

Soyuz to carry crew to ISS on 50th anniversary of Apollo 11

Jon Brain looks back to the Apollo 11's first Moon landing 50 years ago. The Soyuz MS-13/59S spacecraft is hauled to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodr...

Chandrayaan-2 countdown to start at 6.43 p.m. today: ISRO Chairman

A 20-hour countdown for the launch started 6.43 pm Sunday for the scheduled launch at 2.43 pm Monday. "The expert committee identified the root cause of the ...

United States marks 50 years since Apollo 11's 'giant leap' on moon

That's more than 8,000 times what then-NASA intern Gary George paid for them in a government surplus auction in 1976, the auction house said in a news release. ...

Moon landing at 50: Cleveland celebrates Apollo 11 with parties, events, movies

The moon rocks from Apollo 11 , the first mission to the moon, are on loan to the Science Museum of Minnesota where they are on display to the public in honor ...

Apollo 11 Astronaut Warns US Against Being 'Overbearing'

All three were born in 1930, and although Aldrin and Collins are still alive, Armstrong died in 2012 at the age of 82. "Yet for all they did, for all the risks ...

Trump meets with Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins

Collins, who served as an assistant secretary of state after Apollo 11 , added that the world tour he made after the mission helped him realize how the crew's ...

Astronauts headed to the International Space Station on anniversary of moon landing

It will happen around 12:20 p.m. on Saturday, July 20. The six-hour, four-obit journey will be the first for Morgan. The hatches will be opened two hours late...

Red wine compound may help astronauts stay strong

To prevent such atrophy, the astronauts have to do not forget to exercise each of their muscles each day regularly for several hours while on space. But diet an...

'Artificial snow' could save stricken Antarctic ice sheet

By pumping ocean water onto coastal regions surrounding parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet and converting it to snow, it may be possible to prevent the ice s...

SpaceX Perform Eventful Starship Hopper Static Fire Test

The test, which lasted approximately 5 seconds, seemed to be successful, although bright orange flames engulfed the vehicle after its single Raptor engine fir...

China's space lab Tiangong-2 reenters atmosphere under control

About Tiangong-2: It was launched back in September 2016 to conduct a series of scientific and technological space experiments, including in-orbit propellant ...

Cambodia probing where shipments of plastic waste came from | AP business

Cambodia will send back more than 80 shipping containers filled with plastic waste, the country's environment ministry has said. It is the second time a huge...

Scientists create method to print magnetic liquid droplets

But this award-winning innovator dreamed of more - what if magnets could be soft, flowable as liquid and malleable to conform to a limited space? The new clas...

Welcome to TIME Immersive's Apollo 11 'Landing on the Moon' Experience

Google Doodle came up with a short animated clip that recreates the launch of Apollo 11 and the first moon landing . Made "in partnership" with Apollo 11 astr...

Moon, Kentucky celebrates the Apollo Mission anniversary

On Saturday, you can meet the gentlemen who worked on the Mercury and Gemini missions at the St. Louis Science Center as part of their New Moon Rises series. Th...

Washington Monument Commemorates 50th Apollo 11 Moon Landing Anniversary

For instance, the team contributing to Project Apollo from around the world are roughly 4,00,000 in number! Also among those 4,00,000 were the mission's three a...

11 containers of Cdn trash among illegal garbage shipments: Cambodia

Ministry spokesman Neth Pheaktr said Wednesday that 83 containers , which arrived starting in October 2018 , are being held at the country's main port in Siha...

Excessive heat watch issued for much of MA this weekend

The average number of days per year nationwide with a heat index above 105 degrees Fahrenheit would more than quadruple to 24 by mid-century and increase eight-...

GSLV Rocket Glitch Rectified, Chandrayaan-2 Launch Likely Next Week

Monday's launch was postponed due to a last-minute " technical snag " which was spotted shortly before the spacecraft was set to take off, but the issue now app...

Another asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, but astronomers say it’ll miss us

In case you're not already aware of the damage that the asteroids can cause to our Earth, some of them include satellite destruction, tsunamis, earthquakes,...

Apollo 11: Partial lunar eclipse due on 50th anniversary

Astrophotographer Zaid Abbadi captured the partial lunar eclipse of July 16-17, 2019 from Amman, Jordan. "Western Australia will have the best view, with th...

SpaceX astronaut mission looking 'increasingly difficult' in 2019 - executive

Debris collected from the test site in Florida, which identified burning within the check valve, informed the tests in Texas. SpaceX says it didn't expect tha...

A partial lunar eclipse will be visible across Ireland tonight

When that happens, a fraction of the moon's surface is covered by the darkest central part of the earth's shadow, called the umbra. Stargazers will be able to...

Climate change activists 'take Leeds Bridge' | Calendar

The "Operation Mushroom" campaign is part of a string of protests taking part in Ireland and the UK. Some of the 1,000 people arrested during that protest ap...

Mars could become habitable by creating islands from ultralight material

It'd also be warm enough for humans to live and farm food in order to survive in the otherwise harsh, acrid conditions elsewhere the planet. Their results demon...

Russia launches major new telescope into space after delays

Finally, after a month long delay, Russian Federation has launched its powerful X-ray observatory, Spektr-RG. The rocket was launched, following repeated delay...