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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
TopicSpace travel

Topic: Space travel

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.

Jeff Bezos travels to edge of space in Blue Origin’s first passenger flight

Amazon's Jeff Bezos space flight was with 3 others, including an 82-year-old, the oldest person to travel to space, and an 18-year-old, the youngest to travel to space.

Bezos, Branson & Musk — Are billionaires popularising space travel or just on an ego trip?

Jeff Bezos will travel to the edge of space in his New Shepard aircraft — more than a week after billionaire Richard Branson defeated him in a fast developing space race.

Branson made it to space, and Bezos will follow suit. But honestly, no one really cares

The space race appears to be more about ego than scientific advancement. Look at how Branson 'preponed' his trip before Bezos.

To reach Mars, the human body may need some updates

Human bodies are adapted to life on Earth, and aren’t likely to hold up well during journeys required to settle on the moon & Mars.

Dawn of commercial space travel: SpaceX successfully propels 2 NASA astronauts into orbit

With the liftoff, SpaceX became the first private company to launch people into orbit, a feat achieved previously by only three governments: the US, Russia and China.

Elon Musk’s top concern now is SpaceX getting to Mars before he dies

Speaking at a satellite conference, Musk said if Space X doesn't improve its pace of progress, he's 'definitely going to be dead' before the project reaches Mars.

In zero gravity, this is how poorly your brain will function

Gravity remains at the top of the science agenda and how reduced gravity affects the astronauts’ health – especially their brains.

Modi says ISRO eyeing human spaceflight in three years. The claim may not be far off

The space agency recently tested a crew bailout system, and a prototype was just developed for the Indian ‘vyomanaut’.

On Camera

BJP’s ‘Hindu first’ poll plank went from Bengal to UK. Will it help the party in 2026?

When a protester asked, ‘Mamata ji, anyone for Hindus?’ at Kellogg College, Bengal watchers were reminded of the BJP’s core campaign strategy for 2026—Hindu angst against minority appeasement.

ATM withdrawals to get costlier from 1 May. What you need to know

RBI lifted ceiling on interchange fee on ATM withdrawals through circular issued Friday. Interchange fee is amount one bank pays another to facilitate ATM transactions.

Backed by new orders, HAL’s order book swells to Rs 1.84 lakh crore in FY 2024-25

HAL says it booked Rs 30,400 cr (provisional & unaudited) as revenue for financial year ending on 31 March, 2025, as against Rs 30,381 cr in the previous financial year.

Thank you Trump for putting tariff gun to India’s head. That’s the only way we’d be forced to reform

Trump threatening to pull the trigger might be just what is needed to wake up India’s self-congratulatory establishment from its headline-managing fantasies.