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Thursday, December 18, 2025
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Topic: NASA

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

MGNREGA was democratic state-building. VB-GRAMG turns welfare back to mai-baapism

MGNREGA empowered citizens to engage the state on equal terms. VB-GRAMG recasts them as labharthis, who must prove eligibility to receive the largesse of a benevolent leader.

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.