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Dec 15, 2021 Outlook Web Desk Elon Musk became TIME's Person of the Year 2021. Here's a look at Musk's most viral tweets (so far) for this year.
Nov 11, 2021 Associated Press (AP) Just two days after SpaceX brought four other astronauts home from the International Space Station, it has launched 4 more astronauts into space.
With a SpaceX crew set for return to Earth in the capsule with the defunct toilet, a NASA astronaut described the situation on Friday as 'suboptimal' but manageable.
Aug 29, 2021 Associated Press (AP) The Dragon is carrying more than 4,800 pounds (2,170 kilogrammes) of supplies and experiments, and fresh food including avocados, lemons and even ice cream for the space station's seven astronauts.
The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas — the youngest and oldest to ever fly in space.
The failure occurred just minutes after SpaceX declared success. Two previous test flights crash-landed in fireballs.
SpaceX’s owner, Elon Musk, tweets, “Mars, here we come!!” after the Starship rocket exploded.
This is the second astronaut mission for SpaceX
In a bid to highlight the challenges the year 2020 has faced, the crew has been named the capsule Resilience
The crewed mission will be the first time since 2011 that American astronauts launch on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station.
The missions will be for stays of up to 30 days. As many as a dozen private astronauts could visit the ISS per year, NASA said.
The Israeli spacecraft lost communication with ground control late on Thursday as it was making its final descent to the moon. Moments later, the mission was declared a failure.
A group of institutional investors in Tesla has sued CEO Elon Musk, alleging that his repeated 'misstatements on Twitter' continue to harm the company and its shareholders.
SpaceX would lay off 10 per cent of its roughly 6,000-person workforce as the US-based private spaceflight company attempts to get two expensive projects off the ground.
Elon Musk's vision is to develop a tunnel system that can be expanded and improved like an underground three-dimensional freeway system.
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The Starship is designed to service all Earth orbit needs as well as the Moon and Mars.
Maezawa, 42, will be the first lunar traveller since the last US Apollo mission in 1972.
He also proposed the usage of rockets to carry people between Earth's major cities in under half-an-hour.
A farmer sits near his red chillies at a deserted APMC market, during the weekend curfew imposed by the Karnataka government to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Hubballi.
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Delhi Chief Minister & AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal being welcomed by women supporters during his door-to-door campaign ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, in Goa.
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A health worker collects swab sample of a woman for COVID-19 test, amid concerns over rising Omicron cases, in Gurugram.
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Traffic jam on a road at Shalimar Bagh during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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The Lajpat Nagar market wears a deserted look during the weekend curfew imposed by the Delhi government to curb the spread of Covid-19, in New Delhi.
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He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
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The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Jan 15, 2022 Saikat Majumdar 
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Jan 08, 2022 Rakhi Bose 
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
Jan 01, 2022 Saikat Majumdar 
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.
Dec 28, 2021 Tanvir Aeijaz 
