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Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will fly to space with a piece of home—halwa & aam ras, from ISRO

Some of the dishes from this trip will also be included in the food menu for Gaganyaan, India’s first human spaceflight, which is expected to depart in 2027.

What Sunita Williams took to space in 2007—Gita, Ganesha & St Christopher

In 'Space: The India Story', Dinesh C Sharma traces the country's rise as a space power, highlighting key missions, challenges, and pioneers.

Gaganyaan astronaut-designate Shubhanshu Shukla gears up for 1st space trip. What is Axiom Mission 4

Shukla will be on board a private spaceflight to ISS that is likely to be launched in May. He's set to be the second Indian national to fly to space after Rakesh Sharma in 1984.

How Priyamvada Natarajan got more women access to the Hubble telescope

Astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan talked about her work in black hole origins, and challenges of being a woman in STEM during her lecture at the India International Centre in Delhi.

IISc scientists have cracked the code for Earth landing. India’s gearing up for space tourism

NASA struggled to land Sunita Williams on Earth. Indian scientists are working on the fix.

‘In Top Gun, you see jets flying around & that’s absolutely what I wanted to do’—Sunita Williams in 2007

In a 'Walk the Talk' interview with Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Williams talks about her journey to space, Indian roots, and the inspiration she hopes to offer future generations.

Splashdown! Stranded for 9 months, astronauts Sunita Williams & Butch Wilmore back on Earth

Delays, battery failures & a risky return—Indian-origin astronaut Williams and her colleague Wilmore endured it all. They splashed down off the coast of Florida Wednesday at 3:27 am IST.

After 9 months, Sunita Willaims, Butch Wilmore & crew get ready to leave ISS as NASA goes live

The 4-member crew is scheduled to travel back to Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Next stop: Earth. Astronauts Sunita Williams & Butch Wilmore’s return date announced by NASA

Williams and Wilmore are scheduled to travel back to Earth alongside Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Astronaut crew docks with space station to replace ‘Butch and Suni’

Otherwise a routine crew rotation flight, the Crew-10 mission is a long-awaited first step to bring Wilmore and Williams back to Earth.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.