Space
5 Aug
South Korea's first lunar orbiter successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, Seoul said Friday, with the payload including a new disruption-tolerant network
26 Jun
Recently, there have been concerns about climate change and the need to recycle, reuse and repurpose organic and inorganic wastes to reduce pollution.
3 May
The 25-year roadmap for the implementation of the National Space Policy (NSP) as envisioned by the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) is currently
23 Oct 2021
NASA is aiming to launch its uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1 in February next year, the space agency said Friday, the first step
17 Oct 2021
A Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS)
22 Aug 2021
A Russian Soyuz rocket has blasted into space carrying 34 new satellites from British operator Oneweb, which aims to provide broadband internet everywhere in the world.
12 Jul 2021
Richard Branson completed a daring, barnstorming flight to the edge of space Sunday, rocketing through the atmosphere in the spaceplane he’d been yearning to ride for nearly 20 years. The suborbital trip gave the British billionaire, his three crewmates, and two pilots a glimpse of the Earth from more than 50 miles up and a…
11 Jul 2021
Billionaire Richard Branson took off Sunday from a base in New Mexico aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel bound for the edge of space, a voyage he hopes will lift the nascent space tourism
1 Jul 2021
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin firm announced Thursday that barrier-breaking woman aviator Wally Funk, 82, will be the fourth passenger on the billionaire's space trip. The trip to space is 60 years overdue for Funk, who was one of the Mercury 13, the first women trained to fly to space from 1960-1961, but excluded because of…
17 Jun 2021
A petition calling for billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to be denied re-entry to Earth following his spaceflight next month has garnered thousands of signatures online. The Change.org petition, as of the time of this report, has gained over 12,000 signatures since it was created last week. Titled "Petition To Not Allow Jeff Bezos Re-Entry…
19 Jun 2020
Russia on Friday said the new space strategy unveiled by the US this week was "aggressive," accusing Washington of seeing space as a place to wage war.
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A Bowen University Professor of Environmental Microbiology, Olatunde Samuel Dahunsi has emerged as the first Nigerian Scientist to win the Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship in 2022/2023 cohort of 50 fellows.
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The Federal Roads Safety Corps, (FRSC), has issued a road diversion alert to travellers along the Abuja-Lokoja road due to recent flooding around Kortonkarfi in Lokoja, Kogi state.
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The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has announced the complete settlement of customers of 20 closed banks whose deposits were trapped in the failed banks, in fulfilment of its promise of protecting depositors in the event of bank failures.