Indian-origin US astronaut Sunita Williams has sent her best wishes from the International Space Station to the countrymen. ...
12:34 PM, Aug 15, 2012
New Delhi: An Indian spaceship will go to Mars and collect important scientific information, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Wednesday. "This spaceship to Mars will be a huge step for us in the area of science and technology," the Prime Minister said in his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort. Manmohan Singh also congratulated Indian scientists and technocrats for successfully testing the Agni V missile and for launching...
12:12 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Houston: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams on Tuesday displayed the tricolour on board the International Space Station and wished Indians on Independence Day. "I wish India a very happy Independence Day for August 15... India is a wonderful country and I am very proud to be a part of India," she said in her message. "Of course, you know that I am half Indian. My father is from Gujarat. So, I...
06:49 AM, Aug 15, 2012
Pasadena: This week's arrival of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity set the stage for a potentially game-changing quest to learn whether the planet most like Earth ever had a shot at developing life, but follow-up missions exist only on drawing boards. The United States had planned to team up with Europe on a trio of missions beginning in 2016 that would culminate in the return of Mars soil and rock samples...
01:29 AM, Aug 12, 2012
Washington: Giving new insight into the Mars landscape, NASA's Curiosity has sent first set of colour images from the 'Red planet', the US space agency said. The agency said the set of images give first coloured horizon-to-horizon glimpse of the Gale Crater. "After a year in cold storage, where it endured the rigors of launch, the deep space cruise to Mars and everything that went on during landing, it is...
09:22 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Washington: NASA has given three firms a total of $1.1 billion to build a new range of "space taxis" that will take astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a media report said. The hi-tech spacecraft to be used to transport crew and supplies to the ISS will replace NASA's space shuttle which were decommissioned last year, the Daily Mail reported. The three firms are Sierra Nevada, Space X and...
04:39 AM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: India plans to send a satellite via an unmanned spacecraft to orbit Mars next year, joining a small group of nations already exploring the red planet, a government scientist said on Friday. A rocket will blast off from the southeastern coast of India, dropping the satellite into deep space, which will then travel onto Mars to achieve orbit, the senior scientist said, asking not to be named because...
11:25 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authoritys (MMRDA) ambitious Metro II may hit a major roadblock this time from its biggest critic Shiv Sena. Subhash Desai, the group leader of the party in the Assembly and MLA from Goregaon, has raised his voice against the proposed metro and monorail car shed at Goregaon spread across 47 hectares. The basic apprehension expressed by the leader is that construction of the depot will...
05:46 PM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: Reliance Industries (RELI.NS), India's third-most valuable company, is expected to invest close to $1 billion over the next few years in its aerospace division, 'The Economic Times' reported on Saturday, citing unnamed executives close to the matter. The company, controlled by India's richest man Mukesh Ambani, may hire about 1,500 people and collaborate with global players to bring sophisticated civil and military aerospace technologies to India, the paper...
01:34 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Washington: After a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, Sally Ride, the first US female astronaut, died Monday in California. She was 61, reported Xinhua. "Sally lived her life to the fullest, with boundless energy, curiosity, intelligence, passion, commitment and love. Her integrity was absolute; her spirit was immeasurable; her approach to life was fearless," read a statement on the website of Sally Ride Science, a company Ride launched to help...
01:32 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Cape Canaveral: Sally Ride, the first US woman to travel into space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, according to her organization, Sally Ride Science. She was 61. Ride broke new ground for American women in 1983 when at the age of 32 she and four crewmates blasted off aboard space shuttle Challenger. She returned to space for a second mission a year later. ""Sally Ride...
05:29 AM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi airspace will be closed between 1 and 3 pm on Saturday for defence radar calibration, Air Force sources said. The airlines were reportedly informed at the last minute because of which many flights were affected. Most flights are expected to be delayed. Air Force sources say the exercise will be completed early to facilitate landing of the Defence Minister's aircraft at 2 pm. ...
12:41 PM, Jul 21, 2012
Wada: An NGO in Thane, Maharashtra, is providing supplementary education and food to over 3500 tribal students from its Wada taluka. Their mission is to help assimilate the children into mainstream society, seamlessly. Learning Space, the NGO, conducts classes in English for the children to help assimilate them into mainstream society. And former ad professional and author Nitin Orayan, who runs the NGO, is trying to make the transition simple....
01:53 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Indian-American cosmonaut Sunita Williams and her team docked their Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station. ...
07:25 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Sunita Williams has made history by being the first woman to commander a NASA space expedition. The Expedition-33 team will be aboard the International Space Station for four months. ...
02:12 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Houston: Record-setting Indian-American cosmonaut Sunita Williams along with two other astronauts on Tuesday docked their Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station for a four-month stay. 46-year-old NASA astronaut Williams, Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency flight engineer Akihiko Hoshide arrived at the ISS after two days in orbit. The trio docked its Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft to the Rassvet module at around 10:21 IST, NASA said...
11:44 AM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: US astronaut of Indian origin Sunita Williams will lead the Expedition 33 crew as the team will conduct experiments on survival on long duration flights for distant space journeys. An officer with the US Navy, Williams, 46, took off from the iconic Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with fellow flight engineers Yuri Malenchenko from Russia and Akihiko Hoshide from Japan in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, NASA said in a...
09:24 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Mysore: More and more smart graduates and research scholars across India are opting for an exciting career in space science, as evident from thousands of applications the space agency gets every year, of late. "On average, about 150,000 graduates and scholars apply every year for postings in our organisation though we select about 300-400 on merit and long-term commitment to become space scientists," Indian Space Research Organisation chairman K Radhakrishna...
03:50 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Houston: Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams, who took off for her second space mission on Sunday, will cast her vote from the International Space Station in the US presidential election to be held in November, just about a week before her return to the Earth. Forty-six-year-old NASA astronaut Williams, Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency flight engineer Akihiko Hoshide took off their space journey on a Russian...
02:44 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Indian-American NASA astronaut Sunita Williams created history on Sunday by becoming the first woman to head a space expedition. This is her second space visit. ...
09:44 AM, Jul 15, 2012
