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Aerospace industry facing its 'gravest ever crisis', says Airbus boss

On another bleak day for the sector, Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury predicted it could take 'three to five years' for passengers to be as willing to fly as before the crisis.




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TOM UTLEY: Annual fight for parking space on Christmas Day makes me wish young cared for the old

TOM UTLEY: You can tell a lot about the way modern families tend to neglect their elderly by the number of car parking spaces available on our road in south London.




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Is it worth investing in Virgin Galactic shares and space stocks?

While the chances of being a space tourist is slim for most, the sector could provide investors with some opportunities.




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California set to close all beaches and public spaces amid Covid-19

Gavin Newsom, the governor of Calif., is expected to announce the further restrictions on today, according to a memo after the public thronged to beaches over the weekend.




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Jack Wilshere insists he still has work to do at West Ham and doesn't want to be a 'waste of space'

Jack Wilshere has insisted that he has 'unfinished business at West Ham' and said he is determined to show manager David Moyes and the Hammers faithful what he can do.




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The illegal tip that is visible from space: 'Dumping ground' in north London

The 'dumping ground' in Edgware, north London, (pictured) has been piled so high it can be spotted on Google Maps' satellite view.




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Fly-tipping ground has so much rubbish it can be seen from space

The site is piled high with household items with hundreds of car tyres, piles of clothes, suitcases and doors scattered across the disused road off the M4 in Newport, south Wales.




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Savvy mother shares genius dining room-space saving trick

Louise Serena Clark, from Worcestershire, revealed to the Facebook group DIY On A Budget Official how she transformed her cramped dining room by slicing her dining table in half.




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Savvy homeowner creates clever storage space under her bath

Klara Senkerikova, 38, and her partner Darron, 31, from Hampshire, overhauled their bathroom - and even fitted a handy storage drawer underneath their bath to save space.




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Why India needs robust space law

A long-awaited draft on Indian space law has finally been unveiled. It is called the Space Activities Bill, 2017, and its main objective is to 'promote and regulate space activities in India.'




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NASA's Christina Koch makes history again with the longest single spaceflight by a woman

On Saturday, Christina Koch officially broke the record for the longest single space flight by a woman after 289 days aboard the International Space Station, passing mentor Peggy Whitson.




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NASAs alien-hunting space telescope finds a planet orbiting a pair of stars

Wolf Cukier was working as an intern for NASA when he confirmed TOI 1338b as a planet - he had just finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York.




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Former NASA astronaut thinks space tourism will become as common as travelling by airplane

Former NASA astronaut Steven Lee Smith, 61, from Phoenix, Arizona claimed today on Lorraine that in decades to come, space tourism will become as common as travelling by airplane.




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NASA reveals 'space hotel' where ISS tourists can view Earth

NASA has revealed that it has partnered with a Houston-based startup called Axiom Space to send the first commercial space station into low orbit for a new generation of space tourists.




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NASA's next mission sends a spacecraft within 26 million miles of the sun in order to gather data

NASA and ESA are teaming up to send a the Solar Orbiter to the sun. The craft will study the massive star for seven years and gather data that will help experts better understand solar storms.




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NASA turns off its Spitzer space telescope after 16 years of service

After more than 16 years studying the universe in infrared light since its launch in 2003, NASA has switched off the Spitzer Space Telescope, bringing its mission to an end.




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Busy Phillips and Lilly Singh play astronauts blasting off into space in Olay ad for Super Bowl LIV

Busy Phillips and Lilly Singh know how to make an entrance during the Super Bowl. During the big game on Sunday evening Olay brought in special reinforcements for their Super Bowl commercial.




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Voyager 2 spacecraft resumes its exploration of interstellar space

The craft, which left the Earth more than 42 years ago on a mission to study and photograph the outer planets, left the solar system in November 2018.




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NASA shortlists four missions to the Solar System but only two of them will go to space 

The four shortlisted projects will each get a $3 million NASA grant for a 9 month feasibility study before two will become actual missions and go to space.




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Earth's new mini-moon seen in full color, but experts questioning if the asteroid is space junk 

Astronomers have released the first colorful image of Earth's mini-moon that was spotted Feb 15. However, the lead expert says the asteroid may actually be human-made debris.




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Elon Musk's SpaceX will launch a NASA mission to a metal rich asteroid

The $117 million (£93 million) mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in July 2022 from Cape Canaveral in Florida and head for Psyche 16 which orbits between Jupiter and Mars.




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NASA unsure if Boeing has to conduct another Starliner test flight before taking humans to space

NASA has declined to say whether Starliner will be forced to undergo another test flight before being granted permission to bring human astronauts into space even after a botched mission last year.




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International Space Station astronaut Scott Kelly shares his tips on how to survive self-isolation

Retired astronaut Scott Kelly (pictured) spent a total of 520 days on the space station, with his longest mission lasting 340 days from from March 27, 2015 to March 1, 2016.




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NASA reveals Uranus's twisted magnetic field is releasing bits of its atmosphere into space

NASA analyzing data from the Voyager 2's 1986 visit to Uranus and found the magnetic bubble surrounding the planet is allowing bits of its atmosphere to leak into space.




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Nasa is running a knock-out photography competition featuring pictures of Earth taken from space

Nasa's Earth Observatory has opened up an archive of pictures of Earth taken from space and is asking the public to vote for the winner in a knock-out-style competition.




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NASA and SpaceX set May 27 to send astronauts to the ISS on an American rocket since 2011

NASA and SpaceX set May 27 for when human spaceflight will return to the US. The mission will send two astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon to the ISS for the first time since 2011.




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NASA chooses SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics to design human landing systems for Artemis mission

NASA 's Artemis mission has turned into a space race between billionaires, as Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX have been chosen to develop human landing systems for mission.




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Space X passes final parachute test ahead its historic launch on May 27

Space X's final parachute test passed with flying colors ahead of its launch in May It will be the US's first manned in nearly nine years.




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Tom Cruise is in talks to shoot a movie in the cosmos with Elon Musk's Space X

Actor Tom Cruise and Elon Musk's SpaceX are working on a project with NASA to shoot an action film in outer space. The movie would be the first narrative feature film to be shot in outer space.




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NASA confirms Tom Cruise is in talks to shoot a movie on the International Space Station

NASA has confirmed Tom Cruise and Elon Musk's SpaceX are working on a project to shoot a film in outer space on board the International Space Station.




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Tunguska event was caused by an asteroid that bounced back to space

Russian scientists suggest the mysterious 'Tunguska event' explosion of 1908 was caused by an iron asteroid that entered the Earth's atmosphere and then bounced back into space.




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Jeff Bezos' futuristic vision of self-sustaining habitat that could house a TRILLION people in space

Building off of a concept introduced by physicist Gerard O'Neill - who Bezos himself studied under during his time at Princeton - the Blue Origin founder outlined habitats that could hold cities.




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NASA's Juno spacecraft spots violent plumes on Jupiter's moon Io 

On Dec. 21, during winter solstice, four of Juno's cameras captured images of the Jovian moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system, on the mission's 17th flyby of the gas giant.




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Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft captures pictures of asteroid Ryugu in stunning detail

The image is the latest stunner to come back from Japan's Hayabusa2 mission, which previously landed two rovers on the asteroid in a world's first.




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US Military reveals mission details of X-37B space plane for the first time ahead of orbital flight

The US Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane will conduct three experiments in low orbit, including converting the sun's power into radio frequency microwave energy.




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Best of BS Opinion: Covid-19, creating fiscal space for states, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day




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Is it time to ditch open-plan kitchen and living rooms in favour of 'broken-plan' spaces?

Certainly, Mary Duggan, a judge for the RIBA House Of The Year award, believes that the rise of technology is contributing to a waning open-plan trend.




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Green open spaces - even allotments - are more sought-after than ever 

Sometimes, we take all this for granted. But the housing market doesn't. New research has proved how much of a premium properties close to green spaces can command.




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Prime Minister meets Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security on the sidelines of 74th session of UNGA in New York [ph]Photo Courtesy :- Naveen Jora[/ph]





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Startup Agnikul raises Rs 23.4 crore to put small satellites into space

Agnikul, operating out of National Centre for Combustion Research at IIT Chennai, is developing a satellite launch vehicle for payload capacity of up to 100 kgs




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Coronavirus Update: Covid-19 Treatment Hopes, Aerospace Survival Plans

Regulators weigh greenlighting the emergency use of a Gilead drug, Boeing and Airbus plan to cut thousands of jobs, and Elon Musk rails against lockdown measures. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday has the latest on the pandemic. Photo: Associated Press




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Inviolate space for conservation is not negotiable


Man-animal conflict in India is taking a heavy toll on habitat and thereby the survival of wildlife. Malini Shankar writes that there is no option but to relocate forest-dwellers out of protected areas.




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Re-imagining public spaces


An innovative new approach to Mumbai's open spaces is an extensive mapping survey. The same approach can be used in other cities too. Darryl D'Monte reports.




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Where is our space?


I could smell Buddham Bai before I could see her. She was covered with layers of clothes once white, laced with the acrid odour of incontinence, of old age. Arpan Tulsyan reports on one woman's poverty and homelessness in the capital.




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Making space for her in litigation


Confronting the history or failed justice for women in rural courts, a legal resource organisation sets up a training and fellowship program for women lawyers in small-town Maharashtra.




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Spaced out in Mumbai


India's commercial capital suffers from a deplorable lack of open spaces and falls far below both national and global standards in that respect. Clearly, the BMC is not tuned in to the requirements, as Darryl D'Monte shows in his report on the draft development plan for the city.




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फॉक्सवैगन ने लॉन्च की Tiguan AllSpace, जानिए कीमत और फीचर्स के बारे में...

फॉक्सवैगन (Volkswagen) ने भारत में Tiguan AllSpace को लॉन्च कर दिया है. भारत में Tiguan AllSpace SUV की एक्स शोरूम कीमत 33.12 लाख रुपये तय की गई है. इसे केवल एक वेरिएंट में लॉन्च किया गया है और डिलीवरी अगले कुछ सप्ताह में शुरू होगी.




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'Space' में होगी टॉम क्रूज की अगली फिल्म की शूटिंग, NASA ने किया कन्फर्म

टॉम क्रूज अब एक ऐसी फिल्म की तैयारी में हैं, जिसकी शूटिंग पृथ्वी पर नहीं बल्कि अंतरिक्ष (Tom Cruis Film Shooting in Space) में होगी.




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First look: Volkswagen Taigun, Tiguan Allspace, T-Roc

First look: Volkswagen Taigun, Tiguan Allspace, T-Roc





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Thailand's tourist drought leaves space for shy sea mammal

Drone video footage released by the department of national parks shows a 30-strong herd of dugongs on Wednesday off Libong island in Trang province. They were feeding on sea grass and occasionally surfaced to breathe.