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NASA chooses Raja Chari as commander of SpaceX Crew-3 mission

December 17, 2020
NASA chooses Raja Chari as commander of SpaceX Crew-3 mission
  • NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have chosen Indian-American Raja Chari to be the Commander of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station. Presently Raja Chari is a colonel in the US Air Force.

NASA-ESA successfully drives Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite

November 22, 2020
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite
  • The US space agency NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully drove ‘Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite’, to observe the rising global sea level.
  • The joint US-European satellite lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

SpaceX sends 4 astronauts into space

November 17, 2020
SpaceX
  • SpaceX has sent Four Astronauts (3 Americans, 1 Japanese) to the International Space Station on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) by a private company.
  • They were sent by Falcon Rocket from the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA to launch US-European ocean-monitoring satellite on November 21

November 5, 2020
satellite
  • On November 21, NASA is planning to launch US-European ocean-monitoring satellite named Sentinel-6.

NASA spacecraft successfully touches Bennu asteroid

October 22, 2020
NASA
  • In a first, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) spacecraft successfully touched an asteroid’s surface to collect dust and pebbles on October 20, 2020.

NASA launched SS Kalpana Chawla Cargo Spacecraft

October 4, 2020
SS Kalpana Chawla Cargo Spacecraft
  • NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has launched cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.

Researches discover Jupiter like planet:TOI-849b, first-ever planetary core

July 4, 2020
TOI-849b
  • The researchers found first-ever planetary core Jupiter-like planet, TOI-849b, 39 times larger than the Earth, orbiting around a distant star with temperature lower than the Sun, the planet is placed around 730 light-years away from Earth.

NASA’s headquarter building identified after ‘Mary W.Jackson’

June 28, 2020
NASA
  • NASA declared that its headquarters will be entitled after one of its history-making engineers. In a news release, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told that the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters building will be named after Mary W. Jackson, its first African American female engineer.

SahKathy Sullivan to be the first person to walk in space and reach ocean’s deepest point

June 11, 2020
NASA
  • Previous NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the ocean. Sullivan was also the first American woman to perform a spacewalk over 36 years ago. So right now, she’s the first human to have done both.

Indian Renjith Kumar respected with “NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal”

June 10, 2020
NASA
  • Renjith Kumar, Engineer from Kerala and Indian Entrepreneur based in Virginia is respected with NASA’s highest form of recognition for a non-governmental individual “NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal” for his work to NASA through executive leadership, engineering contribution, technical excellence and customer satisfaction.