India named four air force officers to become the founding members of the country's Gaganyaan astronaut corps, as an uncrewed capsule is being prepared for an orbital flight test this year. "It was a very special moment for me to hand over wings to the four Indian astronaut-designates," ...
But there is broad political consensus on NASA's eventual return to the moon and whenever piloted Artemis missions begin, the agency will need a cadre of well-trained astronauts to fly them. The 18 astronauts named Wednesday are among the most diverse groups NASA has ever put together: nine ...
"Nasa astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, each has their own story, but, together, they represent our creed: E pluribus unum - out of many, one. Together, we are ushering in a new era of exploration for a new generation of...
The name of the space station, Tiangong, means “Heavenly Palace”. In Chinese myths, this is the home of Tian Di. Now Tiangong Space Station is a home for Chinese astronauts in space. And China welcomes foreign astronauts to Tiangong so that they can work together. ...
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Artemis –“Greek goddess of the moon, wilderness, and the hunt”; one of NASA’s space missions that aim to bring astronauts to the moon, including the first person of color and the first woman on the moon Belinda (German and Spanish girl name)–“Pretty one” or “serpent”; goddess...
NASA unveiled the first nine astronauts for its commercial crew missions to the International Space Station today, including rookies as well as veterans.
The name of the space station, Tiangong, means "Heavenly Palace". In Chinese myths, this is the home of Tian Di. Now Tiangong Space Station is a home for Chinese astronauts in space. And China welcomes foreign astronauts to Tiangong so that they can work together. As most of the Knock...
For example a US study finds that people named Darryl are more likely to become astronauts. But this does not mean our names decide(决定) our life. As William Shakespeare says, "A, and it's even later name, it still Ouresome in action." 6. How do names influence people according to...
Using Mikolajczyk's face detector (23), we extract faces from these images; using Cun- ningham et al's open source named entity recognizer (12), we detect proper names in each of the associated captions. This gives us a set of faces and names associated with each picture. Our task is...