When Indian pilot Shubhanshu Shukla boarded the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) spacecraft and soared into orbit on June 25, 2025, he didn’t just make history—he opened a new chapter in India’s space story. Shukla became the first Indian citizen to live aboard the International Space Station (ISS), marking India’s long-awaited entry into the world’s most … Read more
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the final marks for the Indian Economic Service (IES) and Indian Statistical Service (ISS) Examinations 2024. Candidates can check their scores online at upsc.gov.in. This year, UPSC announced 18 vacancies for the IES and 33 vacancies for the ISS. However, only 31 candidates were selected for the … Read more
On January 30, Matthias Maurer took to microblogging site Twitter and shared the pictures with netizens. Matthias Maurer, an astronaut onboard the International Space Station, left the internet in awe when he shared pictures of the Earth from the space station. Even the astronaut could not tell the shapes and lines in the desert. The … Read more
Virgin Galactic has sold around 700 tickets since flying its founder Richard Branson to space over summer, with commercial service expected to begin by the end of 2022, the company said in its financial results Monday. The current price of the fare is $450,000 per seat, well above the $200,000-$250,000 paid by some 600 customers … Read more
The video was posted on Saturday and has garnered 1.1M views followed by 119K likes and 871 comments (Photo: Screengrab/ Instagram) Astronaut Thomas Pesquet is known for sharing content, video clips that leave people mesmerised. You will not only see him sharing pictures taken of the Blue planet from the International Space Station (ISS) but … Read more
NASA’s Commercial Crew programme is meant to make access to space less costly for easy transportation of cargo and crew to and from the space station. NASA Commercial Crew Programme: Boeing’s Starliner Orbital Flight Test-2 or the OFT-2 has once again been postponed from when the uncrewed test mission was earlier scheduled to take off … Read more
‘Nauka’ is the Russian word for ‘Science’ and it is the biggest space lab sent by the country to outer space so far. Russia’s Nauka module: On the International Space Station was a Russian module called Pirs that was used by spacecraft as a docking port as well as by cosmonauts going for a spacewalk … Read more
People have since been fawning over the beauty of the image and the way the Earth looks from space. (Image: Instagram/NASA) NASA: A stunning picture of night-time Moscow has been shared by US’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on social media and it has left people in awe. The image showed Moscow’s city lights … Read more
The first test flight had been conducted in December 2019. (Image: Boeing/John Proferes) NASA Boeing orbital flight test: NASA, Boeing update the test flight date for Starliner to April 2 at the earliest! NASA and Boeing are preparing to conduct the second uncrewed flight test for a Boeing spacecraft under NASA’s Commercial Crew Programme, and … Read more
This technique was never tried in space before. (Image: NASA) Plant transplants and microgravity: The US space agency NASA has been experimenting with growing crops at the International Space Station for long now. This is a part of research and the programme keeps being expanded with new crops being added to the experiment. The space … Read more