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Cold War-Era Soviet Spacecraft Expected To Crash Back To Earth In May 2025
A 50-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft, Kosmos 482, is set to crash back to Earth in May 2025, with its fate uncertain, sparking concerns about potential damage or impact.
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Lone Soviet Satellite Plunging Towards Earth May Crash Like A Meteorite
There is a small chance the space probe might survive the reentry when most space objects disintegrate upon entering the Earth's atmosphere.
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Scientists Concerned About Humanity's Impact On Moon, Say It Has Entered A New Era
Moon has been impacted by human activity since 1959, when Soviet Union's unmanned spacecraft Luna 2 touched down on on its surface.
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Unmanned Chinese Spacecraft Lands On Moon: Report
China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon's surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, Chinese state media reported.
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NASA Wants To Get To The Moon. But China And India Are Racing There, Too
During the height of the Space Age, the United States and the Soviet Union bushwhacked a frantic path to the lunar surface, landing nearly 20 spacecraft softly on the moon between 1966 and 1976, including the six carrying NASA's Apollo astronauts.
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Russian Spacecraft With US Grandpa Onboard Docks at Space Station
The craft is decorated with a portrait of the first man in space, Soviet hero Yuri Gagarin, whose pioneering orbital flight was made nearly 55 years ago, on April 12 1961.
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New Nasa Cargo Craft Based on 50-Year-Old Russian Space Shuttle Design
Dream Chaser, being developed for delivering cargo to the ISS, is a winged spacecraft that resembles a mini space shuttle and traces its heritage to the Soviet BOR series.
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10 facts about NASA's Mars rover Curiosity and how it survived '7 minutes of terror'
The Mars science rover Curiosity landed on the Martian surface shortly after 10:30 pm (11:00 IST) to begin a two-year mission seeking evidence the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life. Despite Mars' reputation as a spacecraft graveyard, humans continue their love affair with the planet, lobbing spacecraft in search of clues about its early h...
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Cold War-Era Soviet Spacecraft Expected To Crash Back To Earth In May 2025
A 50-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft, Kosmos 482, is set to crash back to Earth in May 2025, with its fate uncertain, sparking concerns about potential damage or impact.
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Lone Soviet Satellite Plunging Towards Earth May Crash Like A Meteorite
There is a small chance the space probe might survive the reentry when most space objects disintegrate upon entering the Earth's atmosphere.
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Scientists Concerned About Humanity's Impact On Moon, Say It Has Entered A New Era
Moon has been impacted by human activity since 1959, when Soviet Union's unmanned spacecraft Luna 2 touched down on on its surface.
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Unmanned Chinese Spacecraft Lands On Moon: Report
China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon's surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, Chinese state media reported.
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NASA Wants To Get To The Moon. But China And India Are Racing There, Too
During the height of the Space Age, the United States and the Soviet Union bushwhacked a frantic path to the lunar surface, landing nearly 20 spacecraft softly on the moon between 1966 and 1976, including the six carrying NASA's Apollo astronauts.
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Russian Spacecraft With US Grandpa Onboard Docks at Space Station
The craft is decorated with a portrait of the first man in space, Soviet hero Yuri Gagarin, whose pioneering orbital flight was made nearly 55 years ago, on April 12 1961.
-
New Nasa Cargo Craft Based on 50-Year-Old Russian Space Shuttle Design
Dream Chaser, being developed for delivering cargo to the ISS, is a winged spacecraft that resembles a mini space shuttle and traces its heritage to the Soviet BOR series.
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10 facts about NASA's Mars rover Curiosity and how it survived '7 minutes of terror'
The Mars science rover Curiosity landed on the Martian surface shortly after 10:30 pm (11:00 IST) to begin a two-year mission seeking evidence the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life. Despite Mars' reputation as a spacecraft graveyard, humans continue their love affair with the planet, lobbing spacecraft in search of clues about its early h...
