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Editor's Note: Launch of the Polaris Dawn mission, the first commercial flight to Earth orbit featuring a non-government, civilian spacewalk, has been delayed at least 24 hours, from 3:38 a.m. EDT ...

During the mission, two crew members from the four-person team will exit their Crew Dragon capsule while in Earth's orbit to perform a tethered spacewalk. This event will serve as the inaugural ...

When the mission commences with the launch of a SpaceX Dragon capsule, four private astronauts will rocket into the upper reaches of Earth's orbit, where they will conduct the first-ever ...

The presence of septal deviation was not associated with changes in olfactory fossa (OF) depths, Keros degrees, and the angle between the lateral lamella and the cribriform lamella. However, OF depths ...

The mission is about more than altitude records and a private spacewalk. Update for 11 p.m. ET on Aug. 27: SpaceX has now delayed the Polaris Dawn launch until no earlier than Aug. 30 due to a ...

On August 17, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) advertised lateral recruitment for 45 posts at the ranks of joint secretary, director, and deputy secretary in different ministries and ...

The lateral entry scheme meant to revitalise a moribund babudom is dead. It will be long before a strong and visionary PM arrives on the scene with a resolve to infuse life into it. Privately, many ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday (August 24) reiterated his “caste census” tune to slam the BJP-led Centre stating that he checked the “list of Miss India” but there was no mention ...

Polaris Dawn plans to not only orbit Earth higher than any astronauts have in more than 50 years but to also feature the first private spacewalk. The mission was originally scheduled to launch ...

In his paper, Loeb proposes how an advanced civilization could rely on the latter process by engineering a black hole that would orbit its home planet. This black hole would be very small ...

The debris scattered by the spacecraft on impact also played a role in the disturbed equilibrium between the moon and its asteroid, shortening Dimorphos' orbit around Didymos. Interestingly ...