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Excited go into microgravity conditions: Astronaut Shukla on ISS travel

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla on Thursday said he was "really excited" go into microgravity conditions as pilot for the Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station later this year.......

'Matured boy' GSLV places gen-next INSAT-3DS weather satellite into orbit

Moving ahead on its mission to study the Earth and ocean surfaces, Indian Space Research Orgainsation on Saturday successfully launched its next generation weather observation satellite INSAT-3DS......

NASA to send helicopter to Mars in 2020

National Aeronautics and Space Administration is planning to send the first unmanned helicopter to Mars in its mission scheduled to launch in 2020, to test the viability and potential of......

NASA launches world's first mission to 'touch' the Sun

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Parker Solar Probe, mankind's first mission to 'touch' the Sun, was successfully launched on Sunday on an unprecedented, seven-year long journey to......

Will Artemis Accords Help India's Space Programme?

'This may open up doors for private players in India to collaborate with global players in commercial missions.' IMAGE: Artemis team members pose for a photograph at an event during which NASA......

Now, NASA supercomputer is 'fastest'

The Unites States space agency NASA has unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer at its Ames Research Centre in California, where India-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla worked for years, in honour......

Indian Amercian gets plum post in US govt

Neel Kashkari, who was the Senior Advisor to US Treasury Secretary Henry M Paulson, was nominated by President Bush to the post of Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs and has......

A virtual flight over the moon, Mars soon!

NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from......

How to get Uncle Sam to fund your start-up

In 2006, Matt Silver, an engineering student in the Ph.D. program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dreamed up a new method for converting organic waste into power. All he needed was......

The woman who creates robots

Watching the original Star Wars movie as a mathematically inclined 11-year-old, Helen Greiner dreamed of someday creating a robot like the heroic R2-D2.After enduring plenty of lean years chasing......

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......

'Mission Mangal belongs to its female actors'

'Our culture, our history, our achievements are great and we should start celebrating them.''I am glad our movies are doing that and Mission Mangal is doing that.' Mission Mangal's trailer was......

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......

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