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Tim Peake of the European Space Agency is carried to a medical tent after he and Tim Kopra of NASA and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos landed in their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, June 18, 2016.
(photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls)
Tim Peake: I feared main parachute had failed when we fell to Earth
The Guardian
British astronaut relives fretful moment of re-entry journey from ISS as he calls on UK to support human spaceflight | Sorry, your browser is unable to play this video. | Please install Adobe Flash™ and try again. Alternatively upgrade to a modern browser. | @iansample | Tim Peake has spoken of th...
Tim Peake of the European Space Agency talks on a satellite phone in a chair outside the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft just minutes after he and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Tim Kopra of NASA landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, June 18, 2016.
(photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls)
Tim Peake: Readjusting to Earth feels like 'world's worst hangover'
Belfast Telegraph
British astronaut Tim Peake has said he feels like he is having the "world's worst hangover" as his body adjusts to life on Earth. | Dizziness and a sense of vertigo have plagued Major Peake since his return from space on Saturday morning. Share Go To | The symptoms are expected for anyone who has s...
NASA travels among the stars at Essence Fest 2016 in New Orleans
The Times Picayune
Stars such as Maxwell, Mariah Carey and Puff Daddy will certainly light up the firmament starting Friday at Essence Fest 2016. But Essence fans are also invited to consider more literal celestial bodies, with the National Aeronautics and Space Admini...
Kerbal Space Program Console Release
ThisGenGaming
It seems Kerbal Space Program will be releasing sometime in July for Xbox One and PS4.  As critically acclaimed it was on the PC I’m sure console player will be happy to hear about this. | From the Press Release: | Squad, the developers of the...
Interstellar Greenhouses: How A Single Molecule Could Be Key To Growing Plants In Microgravity
IFL Science
In the film The Martian, Matt Damon’s character survives being stranded on another planet by growing potatoes in his own faeces. And if we want to visit or maybe even settle on other planets for real, we’ll have to find a way to grow plants outsi...
College's 30-year-old Ham Club fashions antenna for satellite
The Times Of India
PUNE: The College of Engineering Pune's Ham Club, among the oldest in the country, can also take pride in Swayam's success. The satellite's antenna was designed by the full-fledged amateur radio club. Now that Swayam is up there and functioning, it w...
NASA Is Setting Up A Solar System-Wide Internet Connection
IFL Science
The International Space Station (ISS) has become the first piece of a Solar System-wide Internet network. Thanks to a piece of technology called Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN), future Moon and Mars missions will be able to link up to the ...
Raw: NASA Conducts Booster Test
Newsday
NASA conducted a second test Tuesday of a booster intended to launch humans into deep space destinations including Mars. (June 28) | Optimum Online customers get unlimited digital access | Log in | There's more to the story! Subscribe now. Get unlimi...
Space
Tim Peake of the European Space Agency talks on a satellite phone in a chair outside the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft just minutes after he and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Tim Kopra of NASA landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, June 18, 2016.
(photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls)
Tim Peake: Readjusting to Earth feels like 'world's worst hangover'
Belfast Telegraph
British astronaut Tim Peake has said he feels like he is having the "world's worst hangover" as his body adjusts to life on Earth. | Dizziness and a sense of vertigo have plagued Major Peake since his return from space on Saturday morning. Share Go To | The symptoms are expected for anyone who has spent a sustained period of time in zero gravity. |...
Science
The second and final qualification motor (QM-2) test for the Space Launch Systems booster is seen, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, at Orbital ATK Propulsion Systems test facilities in Promontory, Utah. During the Space Launch System flight the boosters will provide more than 75 percent of the thrust needed to escape the gravitational pull of the Earth, the first step on NASAs Journey to Mars.
(photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls)
Booster rocket fires in key NASA test for Mars missions
The Himalayan
CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA’s fireworks came early this year with a successful rocket test in Utah. | On Tuesday, NASA fired a booster intended to hoist astronauts into true outer space. The ground test lasted the full two minutes, and the early word is that everything went well. | NASA plans to use the mega-rocket for trips to Mars in the 2030s. | ...



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