'He inspired millions': British astronaut Tim Peake retires

NASA to make ‘space tug’ as it seeks to retire International Space Station by 2030 | Oneindia News

Reports have emerged that NASA is planning to develop a spacecraft capable of steering the International Space Station (ISS) to a controlled destruction in Earth's atmosphere when its time in orbit is up. #NASA #ISS #WhiteHouse

SpaceX capsule returns crew of 4 from space station mission | Oneindia News

Four astronauts from NASA and SpaceX's five-month Crew-5 mission returned safely from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday as the spacecraft carrying them splashed down off the coast of Florida. All four astronauts have been helped out of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endurance, marking an end to the Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station for NASA. #SpaceX #Crew5 #NASA

Russian filmmakers release trailer for first ever feature-length movie filmed in space

"The Challenge" follows a female doctor sent to operate on a cosmonaut who loses consciousness on the ISS. Shot 400 km above Earth, this movie is the first feature film to be shot in space.

SpaceX ready to retry launching NASA’s next space station crew | Oneindia News

Elon Musk's SpaceX will attempt to send NASA's next long-duration crew for the International Space Station into orbit on Thursday. A previous attempt was postponed due to a clogged filter in the launch system. The issue has now been fixed by replacing the filter and purging the system. #SpaceX #Crew6 #ISS

Scientists Call for New Lunar Time Zone Amid Growing Number of Missions to the Moon

Scientists Call for New Lunar Time Zone, Amid Growing Number , of Missions to the Moon . Fox News reports that the European Space Agency (ESA) plans to give the moon its own time zone. . According to Pietro Giordano, a navigation system engineer for the ESA, scientists want to find a "common lunar reference time" to keep track of time when on the moon. A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this, Pietro Giordano, navigation system engineer for the ESA, via Fox News. The news comes as private companies and nations have plans to travel to the moon. . Fox News reports the idea of creating a new lunar time zone was first introduced during a meeting in the Netherlands in 2022. Currently, astronauts use the time of the nation operating the mission while in space or around the moon. As the number of lunar missions grows, scientists are searching for a more efficient way of accurately recording and communicating time. Fox News reports that NASA faced a similar decision when construction of the International Space Station began over twenty years ago. Rather than determining a unique time zone for the ISS, scientists use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) based on atomic clocks. Fox News reports that UTC takes into account the difference between NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and other space programs in Japan, Europe and Russia. Fox News reports that UTC takes into account the difference between NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and other space programs in Japan, Europe and Russia