Sunita Williams' return: Why SpaceX's Dragon is taking 17 hours while Russian Soyuz needs just 3.5 hours to bring back astronauts from ISSNASA's astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are returning to Earth from the ISS with SpaceX's Dragon capsule, set to splash down of...
18 Mar, 2025, 02.31 PM IST
Russia's moon craft, in race to find ice, starts processing first dataThe Russian Luna-25 mission, the first since 1976, is racing against India, which launched its Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander last month, to co...
14 Aug, 2023, 04.23 PM IST
Russia to launch lunar mission Friday, first in nearly 50 yearsThe launch, which is scheduled for the early hours of Friday, comes as Russia's Ukraine offensive stretches into a second year, sparking hu...
07 Aug, 2023, 07.10 PM IST
Russian cosmonaut hitching ride with SpaceX as part of next space station crewThe four-member crew should reach the International Space Station (ISS) about 29 hours later on Thursday evening to begin a 150-day science...
05 Oct, 2022, 07.05 PM IST
Amid Ukraine war, US set to fly Russian cosmonaut to ISSAnna Kikina, the only female cosmonaut in service, is part of the Crew-5 mission, which also includes one Japanese and two American astrona...
05 Oct, 2022, 11.41 AM IST
Russian banks line up for customised trade a/cs with Indian lendersCentro Credit Bank, Bank Soyuz and MTC Bank are also said to be part of the group of Russian lenders that are not under global economic san...
22 Aug, 2022, 06.15 AM IST
Russian cosmonauts sport colours of Ukrainian flag on their arrival at space stationThe men were the first new arrivals on the space station since the start of Ukraine crisis.
19 Mar, 2022, 09.50 AM IST
Sanctions could cause space station to crash: RoscosmosAccording to Dmitry Rogozin, the sanctions, some of which predate Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, could disrupt the operation of Russian spac...
12 Mar, 2022, 04.17 PM IST
Russian space body launches manufacturing Indian cosmonauts flight equipment for Gaganyaan missionRussia’s Research, Development & Production Enterprise Zvezda under the contract of Glavkosmos with the Human Spaceflight Centre of the Ind...
07 Sep, 2020, 10.32 PM IST
Cheaper and lighter: 'Made in Gujarat' spacesuits to be used in GaganyaanThe firm gave the first glimpse of the space suit at the Futuristic Technology Exhibition inaugurated on Thursday at the Science City.
18 Jan, 2019, 11.34 AM IST
Indian astronaut may travel to International Space Station for training mission in 2022: ReportThe International Space Station is a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit.
03 Oct, 2018, 05.04 PM IST
Russia may train Indian Astronauts for Gaganyaan at its Space CentreMany Russian cosmonauts, past and present, train and stay with their families in this facility, which is run by Roscosmos, the Russian spac...
02 Oct, 2018, 07.27 AM IST
- Soyuz rocket carrying 3 astronauts arrives at ISS
New York, July 29 (IANS) A Russian Soyuz MS-05 carrying the three new crew members to join the Expedition 52 docked to the International Sp...
29 Jul, 2017, 12.22 PM IST
A lookback at space disasters in the history of mankindFour-fifths of the way to the moon, Apollo 13 is crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen bursts.
29 Jan, 2017, 12.01 AM IST
The most expensive take-away is a gourmet meal to spaceThe made-for-space gourmet meal box includes something out of the ordinary and that which could be eaten on the Space Odyssey 2015 six mont...
10 Sep, 2015, 02.02 PM IST
International Space Station faces uncertain future as Russia walks away from itRussia’s unexpected move could have a lot to do with the fallout of the Ukraine crisis and the sanction imposed by the US and the European ...
06 Dec, 2014, 12.05 PM IST
- First Korean astronaut quits space station
South Korea's first astronaut ended her nine-day stay on the International Space Station on Saturday as television images showed her spacec...
19 Apr, 2008, 02.16 PM IST