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Thursday, August 28, 2025
TopicSpace travel

Topic: Space travel

Lift the veil, abandon Soviet-era approach. Indian science community wants ISRO to up its PR game

Using hashtag 'ISROfixyourPR', the Indian science community on X attempts to lift the veil off ISRO's operations, with memes, anecdotes & a list of its not-so-public successes.

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.

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.

On Camera

Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

‘Not just Russian oil, India tapped us along on trade deal,’ says US treasury secy Scott Bessent

New Delhi: The US is not worried about the rupee “becoming a reserve currency” given that it is at an all-time low versus the...

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.