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New Delhi: Announcing a timeline for what will be a huge milestone in India’s space journey, the Centre has said Gaganyatri, or astronaut-designate, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will fly to the International Space Station next month.  Union Minister for Space and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh said, “The International space mission …

Washington: Pop star Katy Perry, with five other women, completed a brief foray into space on Monday, reaching the edge of the cosmos aboard one of billionaire Jeff Bezos’s rockets. Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sanchez, as well as CBS host Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, scientist Amanda Nguyen …

Pop star Katy Perry completed a brief foray into space Monday, roaring to the edge of the cosmos with an all-women crew on one of billionaire Jeff Bezos’s rockets. The “Firework” and “California Gurls” singer was lofted more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface in a vessel …

New Delhi: Indian astronaut-designate Shubhanshu Shukla is likely to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) as soon as May this year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said in an update about Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4). Group Captain Shukla serves as the astronaut designate and Mission Pilot. Mr …

How does India look from space? Four decades after Indian astronaut Rakesh Sharma invoked poet Muhammad Iqbal’s “Saare Jahaan Se Accha” to answer this question, Indian-origin space explorer Sunita Williams reminisced about passing over the “incredible” Himalayas on board the International Space Station, a space lab that hosts astronauts from …

New Delhi: NASA Crew-9 astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore and Nick Hague spoke to the press today about the future of NASA’s human space flight programme, after their recent return from the International Space Station (ISS). Mr Wilmore said they will carefully study and rectify all the issues they have …

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams’ sister-in-law Falguni Pandya said she was shown a photo of the Maha Kumbh from the International Space Station (ISS). In an exclusive interview with NDTV, she said, “I talked to her (Sunita Williams) right before I travelled to Kumbh. I asked her if she can see …

NASA astronaut and Crew-9 commander Nick Hague was the first to emerge from the Dragon capsule with the help of ground crew, almost an hour after the Dragon capsule splashed down off the Florida coast. Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov slid down a ramp coming out of the capsule next, followed …

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned home after their eight-day mission to the International Space Station turned into a nine-month-long ordeal to bring them back. They flew on a Boeing Starliner to space on June 5 last year and returned in SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft this morning. The space …

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are now closer home. They departed this morning from the International Space Station on the Dragon spacecraft after being “stranded” for nine months on the orbital hub. NASA said Crew-9 undocked at 10:35 am (IST), sharing a video of the spacecraft detaching from the …