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1,00,000 people apply for `one-way ticket` to Mars to never return to Earth

Last Updated: Saturday, August 10, 2013, 19:56

The Mars One project by NASA which aims to colonize Mars beginning in 2022 has reportedly revealed that more than 1, 00,000 people are eager to join the project in a bid to visit the red planet but do not want to come back.

Soyuz spaceship blasts off for ISS

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 10:23

Three astronauts, two Russians and an American blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Soyuz spaceship on Tuesday.

NASA trains astronauts `for asteroid mission`

Last Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012, 15:19

NASA is reportedly training a team of astronauts for a mission to land on an asteroid by the end of the next decade.

More people now want to be astronauts: NASA

Last Updated: Sunday, February 5, 2012, 11:15

NASA has received 6,372 applications for its 2013 class of astronauts, double the usual number.

NASA needs to keep more astronauts on hand: Report

Last Updated: Thursday, September 8, 2011, 09:55

Many astronauts have retired or quit with this year`s end of the space shuttle program.

`Atlantis Shuttle to stay one extra day in space`

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 13:36

NASA has decided to extend its final space shuttle mission by one day and provided a bonus day to its Astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis.

Space shuttle astronauts will check for damage

Last Updated: Saturday, July 9, 2011, 14:54

Atlantis astronauts will spend most of their first full day in orbit checking the space shuttle`s delicate heat shield for any damage from Friday`s launch.

Endeavour astronauts wrap up third spacewalk

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 19:44

Two US astronauts wrapped up their third spacewalk outside the ISS on Wednesday.

NASA astronauts remove faulty pump outside ISS

Last Updated: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 09:05

US astronauts have successfully removed a stubborn cooling pump outside the ISS.