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ISRO and India Prepare for Historic Moon Landing After Midnight Tonight

The Wire Staff 06/09/2019

Sticking the landing is expected to bring great accolades...

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Women Astronauts Unlikely to Be on Inaugural Gaganyaan Flight

Prashant Rangnekar 30/08/2019

The first Gaganyaan flight, scheduled for 2022, will carry...

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Today Is a Historic Day for ISRO for Two Reasons. Chandrayaan 2 Is Just One.

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/07/2019

As of today, ISRO has finished trying to discover...

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The Unplanned Legacy of Apollo 11

Prakash Chandra 20/07/2019

A half-century after Apollo 11, the progress achieved by...

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What the First Labour Strike in Space Taught NASA About Human Spaceflight

Vasudevan Mukunth 19/07/2019

On one day in 1973, three American astronauts on...

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Don’t Let the Excitement Over Chandrayaan 2 Distract From the Bigger Picture

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/07/2019

It is understandable that nobody wants to be left...

Indian Human Spaceflight Programme head Dr S Unnikrishnan Nair (right) with Glavkosmos first deputy director general Natalia Lokteva after signing the contract on June 27. Photo: Twitter/@glavkosmosJSC

ISRO Chooses Russia to Train Astronauts for Gaganyaan

The Wire Staff 02/07/2019

The US and France had also offered their support.