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Dubai, July 7 (EFE / EPA) .- The UAE's Nora al-Matrooshi became Wednesday the Arab woman chosen by astronaut Mohammed A Mulla among more than 4,000 candidates for a space mission with NASA. (Camera: ALI HAIDER)SHOT LIST: UAE'S NORA AL-MATROOSHI AND MOHAMMAD A MULLA DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE IN DUBAI, UAE.
The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 53-54 crew held a pre-flight press conference at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday. The three crew members, NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, Mark Vande Hei and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, will launch to the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, September 13 in 2017.
On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger mission 51L, disintegrated mid flight. Thirty years on, many of us still remember the moment vividly. Today the world honors those seven astronauts.
How do you get young people excited about space? British astronaut Tim Peake has the answer.
A NASA spacecraft blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center bound for Psyche, a metal-rich asteroid that could be the remnants of a small planet, or perhaps a new type of celestial body unknown to science. Trailing a blue glow from its next-generation electric propulsion system and flanked by two large solar arrays, the van-sized probe should arrive at its destination in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter, in July 2029. IMAGES
A space capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, lands on the Earth's surface in Kazakhstan. IMAGES