Months after milestone journey into space, Yuri Gagarin received rousing reception during India tourSixty-four years after Yuri Gagarin's historic spaceflight, India celebrated his legacy and the enduring Indo-Russian ties. A plaque honori...
12 Apr, 2025, 07.29 PM IST
Russia plans to create core of new space station by 2030Russia aims to establish the core of its new orbital space station by 2030, according to its space agency, Roscosmos. The agency's head, Yu...
02 Jul, 2024, 03.18 PM IST
Roscosmos chief reveals how Russia is assisting India in Gaganyaan mission“Not only Indian cosmonauts are getting trained in Russia, experts from Moscow's space enterprise are helping develop manned spacecraft and...
12 Mar, 2024, 12.52 PM IST
Russia's Luna-25 smashes into the MoonRussia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the Moon after it spun into uncontrolled orbit, said Russia's space agency ROSCOSMOS on Sunday. Po...
20 Aug, 2023, 03.47 PM IST
A Yuri-ka! Gagarin moment for moviesThe Ruskies have beaten the Yanks again, in space. This time, theirs is the first feature film to be shot outside Earth. Released last week...
24 Apr, 2023, 11.07 PM IST
Cosmonaut’s PerspectiveHe was barely 27 years old when he made this observation. His eyes not only saw what was before him, but also experienced the expansiveness...
20 Mar, 2022, 11.04 PM IST
Russia races Tom Cruise & Elon Musk to shoot the first film in spaceThe Call, the Russian project's working title, was announced four months after the Hollywood project.
01 Jul, 2021, 06.14 PM IST
Russia says to launch own space station in 2025Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said work had begun on the fist module of a new station, after officials warned that Russia was considering ...
20 Apr, 2021, 04.47 PM IST
OneWeb inks MoU with the Kazakhstan government and local partnersOneWeb has inked an MoU with subsidiaries of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of digital development, innovation and aerospace industry, the national ...
12 Apr, 2021, 05.45 PM IST
Bharti-backed OneWeb to provide services in Kazakhstan"The government of Kazakhstan continues to see the importance of bridging the digital divide and enabling the digitization of its economy u...
12 Apr, 2021, 04.06 PM IST
Four Indian cosmonauts complete training in Russia for Gaganyaan missionThe Rs 10,000-crore ambitious project is expected to be launched in 2022, the year of the 75th anniversary of India's Independence. The fou...
23 Mar, 2021, 03.53 PM IST
Gaganyaan: Two flight surgeons to soon leave for Russia for trainingTraining of astronauts is a critical aspect of the human space mission project. Fight surgeons are responsible for astronauts' health befor...
10 Jan, 2021, 04.11 PM IST
Space project aims for the stars, wants India on boardThe project was announced on April 12, 2016, in New York, by Russian internet billionaire Yuri Milner and world-famous cosmologist Stephen ...
25 Apr, 2016, 01.31 PM IST
Yuri Milner announces launch of $100 million research & engineering programThe announcement coincided with the very day astronaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter outer space 55 years ago.
14 Apr, 2016, 12.45 PM IST
Milner offers $100 million for 'Mission to Stars'Russian internet billionaire Yuri Milner is proffering $100 million to a research and engineering programme aimed at demonstrating proof of...
13 Apr, 2016, 11.55 AM IST
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner invests $100 million in search of intelligent alien life53-year-old billionaire Yuri Milner is funding an ambitious $100 million science project to discover whether intelligent life exists outsid...
21 Jul, 2015, 11.43 AM IST
Rise and fall of the Soviet Union RevisitedOf the many gems the thriving Soviet joke industry produced when the ‘worker's paradise’ was still in business, here goes one of the best.
21 Apr, 2011, 04.12 PM IST