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SpaceX mission led by Indian-origin astronaut reaches ISS

A new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts including Indian origin Raja Chari to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the company's Crew-3 mission has docked successfully......

Designed with just six-month life, India's Mangalyaan completes 7 years in space

India's Mars Orbiter spacecraft has completed seven years in its orbit, well beyond its designed mission life of six months. "Indeed, a satisfying feeling," K Radhakrishnan who as the then......

3 Chinese astronauts enter space station after successful docking op

Three Chinese astronauts on Thursday entered the country's new space station after their spaceship successfully docked with it, just over seven hours after the launch from the Gobi Desert, in a......

China all set to launch manned mission with 3 astronauts

China is all set to send on Thursday the first three crew members to its under-construction space station which is expected to be Beijing's eye in the sky and will rival the ageing International......

China's 1st Mars rover steps out to explore red planet

China's first Mars rover on Saturday drove down from its landing platform to the Martian surface to start exploring the surface of the red planet. The six-wheeled solar-powered rover named......

The Bengaluru connection to NASA's moon lander

While New Jersey, US-based OrbitBeyond leads a consortium of subcontractors who have designed and developed hardware for deep space missions, Bengaluru-based Team Indus is leading OrbitBeyond's......

Growing crops in space, reaping the benefits on Earth

The ongoing experiments on Moon, Mars and elsewhere could translate into better crop yields and hardier plants that could thrive in inhospitable parts of the world, says Devangshu Datta. IMAGE:......

Why space start-ups find it hard to raise funds

While industry is upbeat, start-ups in the space sector are finding it difficult to cater to the demand due to a lack of funding, issues related to policy like foreign funding, intellectual......

Mukesh Ambani's wealth equals Estonia's GDP: Forbes

The total wealth of India's top five billionaires, which stands at a whopping $83.7 billion, is more than the cost of 1,230 Mars Orbiter 'Mangalyaan' Missions and is more than 18 times the cost of......

Technology, Mr Modi, is the god with clay feet

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may discover from the experiences of his predecessor Rajiv Gandhi that there are limits to what technology can achieve, notes Kanika Datta Technology is back in......

The Mission Mangal Review

Mission Mangal has its heart in place, feels Sukanya Verma. An apple fell on Newton’s head, Archimedes stepped inside a bathtub and Vidya Balan fries puris to make an important......

Bollywood's SPACE adventures!

When it comes to courtship, Bollywood's romantics aim for the stars and moon. But when it comes to space travel, they develop cold feet. Neither Sushant Singh Rajput’s dream project,......

All About Mission Mangal

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Sonakshi Sinha, Kirti Kulhari, Sharman Joshi, Nithya Menon and H R Dattatreya. Director: Jagan Shakti. What's it about: How a group of scientists......

What Akshay Kumar wants to tell ALL heroes!

'In our textbooks, we never had chapters where a woman does something.''We had one Rani Laxmibai chapter, the rest only the men did.''We have been trained like that but, now, things have to......

What were Taapsee, Vidya, Kiara up to?

Wherever the stars go, the cameras follow. Film promotions, shoots... film folk get snapped everywhere. So what were they doing this weekend? Taapsee Pannu was spotted at the Sun-n-Sand......

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