Mangalyaan has been named among the best inventions of 2014 by Time magazine which described it as a technological feat that will allow India to flex its "interplanetary muscles."
ISRO chief K Radhakrishnan spoke with rediff.com briefly before the launch of India's mission to Mars
Mission Mangal has its heart in place, feels Sukanya Verma.
Contributors to Team Indus project will have names etched on an object going to space.
'If Chandrayaan 1 had a launch with GSLV, we need not have an orbiter for Chandrayaan 2.' 'We could have gone straight round the moon and landed on the moon.'
Top space scientist G Madhavan Nair said it may take ten years for the country to put in place such an operational rocket.
The International Space Station has completed 15 years of continuous human presence.
'In a part of the world where the government tells people what not to eat and what slogans to shout and not shout, it is beneficial to develop a mentality that is science minded and therefore open-minded.' 'That is possibly why the space programme has always had support from all sides of the political divide,' says Aakar Patel.
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.
Lt Col Raja "Grinder" Chari, 39 is in the batch of 2017.
The Indian-American astronaut will fly the first space capsules built by private companies, SpaceX and Boeing.
Why did ISRO's workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket fail during its 41st flight?
Dr Rao accelerated the development of rocket technology which led to the successful launch of ASLV and PSLV satellites.
We take a look at the amazing things that Scott Kelly experienced as he hovered 400 kilometres above the earth zipping around it at 17 thousand miles per hour for nearly an year.
How will the return of a majority government at the Centre, the new India-US friendship and the Mangalyaan triumph change India?
'If India and China come together, 40 per cent of the world's people are going to be prosperous'
Thirty-four years after he traveled to space, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih that he looks forward to Gaganyan, India's first manned space mission in 2022.
