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PlanetSpace protest may hit NASA programme
27 Jan 2009
March launch for Kepler likely
15 Jan 2009
Yoking NASA's retiring space shuttles for a trip to Mars
07 Jan 2009
Veteran inventor and futurist Eric Knight has unveiled a concept that would allow human exploration of Mars to take place in a couple of years rather than the 20-year time frame proposed so far.
New NASA report reveals more details of Columbia disaster
31 Dec 2008
A new 400-page report examines the space shuttle Columbia disaster in detail and reconstructs the last moments in the astronauts’ lives.
NASA to retire 3 space shuttles
19 Dec 2008
NASA pushes back Mars mission from 2009 to 2011; delay to increase project cost by $400 million
05 Dec 2008
Space shuttle Endeavour returns to earth, but forced to take a small detour
01 Dec 2008
The space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, taking a detour to sunny California
NASA folds up Mars Lander programme
11 Nov 2008
After five fruitful months experiments, Nasa's Phoenix Mars Lander programme was finally declared dead as Martian winter and a raging dust storm appeared to have drained the probe's batteries.
NASA unveils next generation lunar rover
25 Oct 2008
NASA goes back to the Moon, aboard Chandrayaan-1
22 Oct 2008
ISRO to be part of NASA's second generation International Lunar Network initiative
31 Jul 2008
ISRO will be a part of a nine-nation initiative to establish s Lunar space station.
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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