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From admiring rocket launches as a child growing up in Houston to steering the operations at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), scientist Amit Kshatriya has had a stellar innings at the space agency that has set on a mission to land astronauts on the moon. As NASA’s Associate Administrator, Wisconsin-born Mr. Kshatriya serves...

A fast breeder reactor (FBR) gets its name from two features. First, it ‘breeds’ more nuclear fuel than it consumes. Second, it uses fast neutrons — ones that haven’t been slowed — to initiate nuclear fission. France began building an FBR called Superphénix in 1976. After spending around $10 billion, the reactor became critical in...

From admiring rocket launches as a child growing up in Houston to steering the operations at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Indian-American scientist Amit Kshatriya has had a stellar innings at the space agency that has set on a mission to land astronauts on the moon. As NASA’s Associate Administrator, Wisconsin-born Mr. Kshatriya...

With Artemis II successfully completing its historic lunar mission on Friday (April 10, 2026), NASA is banking on billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk for the next step: landing astronauts on the Moon. The Apollo programme — which sent the first and only humans to the Moon’s surface between 1969 and 1972 — was designed...

On April 10, the Orion crew capsule of the Artemis II mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of San Diego, at the end of a 10-day mission that carried four astronauts around the moon and back. The crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian...

On April 10, 2026, NASA astronauts Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover and Mission Specialist Christina Koch and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, splashed down in the Pacific, successfully concluding their journey to the moon and back.  It was the first time in over 50 years that humans had been in the...

 The NASA spacecraft carrying four astronauts splashed down as planned Friday (April 10, 2026) off the California coast, capping the US space agency’s successful crewed test mission around the Moon, the first such flyby in more than 50 years. Mission commander Reid Wiseman reported that the crewmembers — himself along with Christina Koch, Victor Glover...

The NASA spacecraft that carried four astronauts around the Moon splashed down as planned Friday (April 10, 2026) into the Pacific Ocean. The crew members — Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen and Reid Wiseman — are to be met by recovery teams and flown to a U.S. military ship for medical evaluations. “We have...

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The Artemis II astronauts conducted a historic lunar flyby, gathered invaluable data and took in unprecedented Moon views, but one of the most crucial moments of their 10-day mission is still to come: Friday’s (April 10, 2026) splashdown. Earlier this week, Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Jeremy Hansen voyaged...