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US astronaut returns to Earth after longest mission by woman
AFP, Published on 07/02/2020
» ALMATY (KAZAKHSTAN) - NASA's Christina Koch returned to Earth safely on Thursday after shattering the spaceflight record for female astronauts with a stay of almost 11 months aboard the International Space Station.
Record-breaking US astronaut set to return to Earth
AFP, Published on 06/02/2020
» ALMATY (KAZAKHSTAN) - US astronaut Christina Koch is set to return to Earth Thursday having shattered the spaceflight record for female astronauts by spending almost a year aboard the International Space Station.
US makes history with first all-female spacewalk
AFP, Published on 18/10/2019
» WASHINGTON: US astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir became the first all-female pairing to carry out a spacewalk Friday, following a spacesuit flub earlier this year that caused the historic mission to be aborted.
First spacewalker Alexei Leonov dies
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» MOSCOW: Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness.
First spacewalker Alexei Leonov dies
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» MOSCOW: Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness.
Artificial meat made in space coming to a store near you
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» NEW YORK: Creating meat from cells is no longer the realm of science fiction: a Russian cosmonaut did it aboard the International Space Station, and it is just a matter of time before these products arrive in supermarkets.
Emirati becomes first Arab to reach ISS
AFP, Published on 26/09/2019
» BAIKONUR (KAZAKHSTAN) - An Emirati has made history as the first Arab to reach the International Space Station, after blasting off from Kazakhstan.
Russia sends 'Fedor' its first humanoid robot into space
AFP, Published on 22/08/2019
» MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station.
500 years on, how Magellan's voyage changed the world
AFP, Published on 10/08/2019
» LISBON - Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time.
500 years on, how Magellan's voyage changed the world
AFP, Published on 05/08/2019
» LISBON: Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time.