BENGALURU: Isro astronaut Group Captain Angad Pratap and Assistant Professor Jishnu Keshavan from IISc, are in the final ...

With the scale model capsule suspended 480 feet above the ... NASA considered this in the 1960s as well, but like the Apollo rotor re-entry it never got further than the planning stages.

America’s newest space heroes ended man’s greatest and most dangerous space adventure when their sturdy six-ton spaceship ...

The possibility of a short circuit in the capsule further threatened the ... and their colleagues in Houston knew that Apollo 13’s fiery re-entry could destroy the spacecraft—and kill the ...

The crew of Apollo 8 had a lot of things on their ... by attempting what flight engineers call a “skip entry.” When the Orion capsule enters the 24 km-wide keyhole in the atmosphere it will ...

While their capsule pitched in ... Astronaut recovery during Apollo 11 was like a highly choreographed fishing trip, albeit one involving high-stakes re-entry calculations and weather concerns.

Re-entry and splashdown were the final major objectives of the Artemis 1 test flight, giving engineers confidence the spacecraft's 16.5-foot-wide Apollo ... to stabilize the capsule in light ...

In one especially hairy moment, Buzz Aldrin spotted an anomaly that could have killed not only the entire crew of Apollo 11 ... the Command Module ready for re-entry. The last thing you want ...

April 21 (UPI) --SpaceX launched its Bandwagon-3 mission into orbit Monday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with more satellites on board and a re-entry capsule that will ...