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The US will help train and send an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station by the end of 2024, Nasa administrator Bill Nelson
the US and also a great future partner for the activities of astronauts in space
The US will launch several private landers on the south pole of the Moon next year
Nelson led a high-level US delegation that called on space minister Jitendra Singh and congratulated him for the historic Chandrayaan-3
If India wants to collaborate with us, of course, we will be available
He also said that Nasa is ready to plan an interplanetary mission with India but it all depends upon Isro
India, in a joint venture with the US, will launch the most expensive satellite Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) in the first
The satellite is expected to be worth nearly $1 billion
NISAR will look at the surface of the Earth and its climate
This will be very important information as NISAR will give a three-dimension model and tell us exactly what is going to happen on our planet
Nelson, who is also scheduled to visit Mumbai for a meeting with business leaders in the space sector, took forward the talks that PM
Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden had agreed on earlier this year to launch a two-week joint India-US Space flight next year.The 14th
Nasa administrator is a former US senator from Florida and flew to space on board the Columbia shuttle 38 years ago
The first time I saw India was from space, the entire country in one go in January 1986
I saw Sri Lanka first and as I moved my eyes upward, I could see the entire India
I met Rakesh in April 1991 before the Soviet Union broke apart
nations have signed the accord for peaceful use of space
So, I did an experiment on a treadmill
I ran 20 minutes on the treadmill and checked a recorder attached to the treadmill
But to my surprise, the recorder was not working
So, I ran 20 more minutes to get it recorded, which means I covered half of the world running (Columbia was circling Earth in roughly 93
Laurie Leshin, Director of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
