Meet Gopi Thotakura, India's 1st space tourist

Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, is set to become the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin's NS-25 mission. IMAGE: Gopi Thotakura.......

SEE: ISRO achieves major feat as RLV landing successful

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday said it has achieved a major milestone in the area of reusable launch vehicle technology through the RLV LEX-02 landing experiment. This is the......

ISRO to put first astronaut on Moon by 2040

After the historic success of its Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going full throttle with its plans to send Indian astronauts for the first time to the......

How Space Travel Can Unite The World

All progress in space should excite us and encourage us to be optimists about a better future for our planet and all of us, asserts Aakar Patel. IMAGE: India's third lunar mission -- Chandrayaan-3......

Small car maker, but big energy saver

Vinay Varshney, as he predicts the end of CFL lamps in a few years, points to the ceiling of the conference room at Maruti Suzuki's factory in Gurgaon. It is then that we notice that the two......

Indian auto component makers go green

Indian auto component and tyre companies serving the European market are going green. That is not out of choice, but because of the new European Union norms for automobile recycling, which comes......

Google, Khosla in race to build 42 kmpl car

The race to launch a 100-mile-per-gallon (42 km per litre; on the US scale 3.8 litres = one gallon) car the world over is hotting up, even as Ratan Tata has lowered the global bar for launching the......