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Space exploration Chandrayaan 2: NASA to capture Vikram’s landing site on Moon again – The Financial Express

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ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 Update: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of NASA has been circling the moon since 2009 and will pass over the landing location of Vikram Lander again on October 14 and make another attempt to spot ISRO’s landing module. Chandrayaan 2: The Vikram Lander was set to land between the Moon’s crater Manzinus…

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Space exploration Alexei Leonov, First Person to Walk in Space, Dies at 85

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Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov trains for the Apollo-Soyuz mission in April 1975 . (Credit: NASA)Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first person to walk in space, has died at the age of 85 at the Burdenko Military Hospital in Moscow. His death was announced Friday, Oct. 11, by Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency.Born in 1934, Leonov became the…