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Black History Month: The Black astronauts who have flown through space
A list of Black astronauts part of space flights across history under NASA has been released to commemorate their achievements this Black History Month. The list, which features 18 astronauts who ...
“The largest human gathering in the world is well lit”: NASA astronaut reveals breathtaking images of Maha Kumbh Mela from space
NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, aboard the International Space Station, shared images of Prayagraj glowing during the 2025 Maha ...
Scientific American8d
Everyone Who Has Ever Been to Space, Charted
For many years NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, were the only spacefaring entities in the world. The Chinese ...
Hindustan Times2d
NASA astronaut shares pic of Maha Kumbh from space: ‘Largest human gathering in the world is well lit’
he took to social media to share two photographs of a sprawling city glittering alone in a sea of black. The Maha Kumbh Mela, as seen from space at night(X/@astro_Pettit) The American astronaut ...
Space.com13d
Astronauts repair black hole observatory, inspect cosmic ray detector on ISS spacewalk
An X-ray observatory used to study neutron stars is “back in the black” and ... upgrades after two astronauts completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS).