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If everything goes ahead, in November this year, the International Space Station (ISS) is about to become a bit more spicy. Researchers hope to send the plants Española chili pepper ( Capsicum annuum), which can make the peppers the first fruits that are grown in space by American astronauts. "We were looking for varieties that are not getting too high, …

The Indian engineers canceled the launch of the Chandayan 2 landing mission on Sunday after they marked a "technical smile" during the last hour of the inverse counting, India's space agency reported. take off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on top of the GSLV Mk.3 rocket in India at 2121 GMT (5:21 pm EDT) on Sunday, or 2:51 pm …

Discovery travels in unexplored waters for the 2019th edition of their Shark Week celebrations. Along with classical shark programming on the net, the week will also see the premiere of the first original movie on the net featuring Transformers star Josh Duhamel. The movie, Capsized: Blood In The Water is a solid entertainment experience with Discovery's current programming. It tells …

India interrupted the launch of a spacecraft on Monday to land on the far side of the moon less than an hour before take-off. Chandrayan-2 mission was discontinued when a "technical obstacle" was observed in a 640-ton, 14-story rocket device, spokesman for the Indian Space Research Organization BR The countdown halted sharply at T- 24 seconds, and Gururupad said the …

India seeks to take a giant technological leap with a second unmanned moon mission, aimed at landing a rover near the unexplored south pole. Chandrayan-2 blast at the Satih Dhawan Space Center in Sri Kharkotta in the southern Indian province of Andhra Pradesh is planned at 2.51 hours local time on Monday (2121 GMT, Sunday). A successful start will be …

Made In Space already has 3D-printed beams in 2017 when it uses space in NASA that simulates some of the space conditions. This, of course, is another challenge altogether – this is the introduction of microgravity, as well as the lack of human support if things go wrong. This is the start of the second phase of partnership between the …

Messages of peace from exiled leaders of nations under Soviet occupation were poignant. Anatols Dinbergs of Latvia spoke of how the moon landing would contribute to the "restoration of freedom to all nations." But the words of dictators allied with the United States felt distinctly less principled. Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China and Park Chung-hee of South Korea, …