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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk delivered what no previous human missions to outer space could. The company took four civilian crew members to outer space in a spacecraft with no professional astronauts on board and returned them safely to Earth after three days. While the successful mission was an encouragement to others attempting something similar, the all...

SpaceX's Inspiration4 is scheduled to take off on September 15 at 8:02pm EDT (5:32 am IST on September 16). The launch will be livestreamed on Netflix's YouTube channel and the stream will begin on 7pm EDT (4:30am IST on September 16). Inspiration4 will take four civilians onboard the Falcon 9 spacecraft, which will undertake a three-day mission to...

Chandrayaan-2, India’s lunar spacecraft, has completed over 9,000 orbits around the Moon, ISRO announced Monday. Its imaging and scientific instruments are providing excellent data, as per officials.

The Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation K Sivan on Monday inaugurated a Lunar Science Workshop 2021, to commemorate the completion of two years of operation of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft around the lunar orbit.

Russia said it postponed its first mission to the Moon's surface in decades as a result of "problems" encountered during tests of the Luna-25 spacecraft.

China has said its Zhurong Mars rover will continue exploring Utopia Planitia where it landed on May 14 after completing the initial 90-day program.

NASA agreed to temporarily halt work on lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk's SpaceX after rival billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin sued the US government, an agency spokeswoman said.

Two spacecraft flew past Venus recently in a rare double flyby that captured unique imagery and data. You can watch the video here.

NASA has shared a picture of the moon. The 'false-colour mosaic' was constructed from a series of 53 images captured by the Galileo spacecraft.

Jeff Bezos offered to cover up to $2 billion (roughly Rs. 14,890 crores) in NASA costs if the US space agency awards his company Blue Origin a contract to make a spacecraft designed to land astronauts back on the Moon.

Jeff Bezos created history on Tuesday when he successfully travelled to the edge of space and returned in the spacecraft developed by his company, Blue Origin, accompanied by a crew of three others in the New Shepard spacecraft on his maiden journey to space. Bezos said the experience was beyond what he dreamt of, and said that a future trip should...

Jeff Bezos is set to blast off aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard to space today. He will be joined by an all-civilian crew consisting of his younger brother and the oldest as well as youngest person to travel to space. The launch is scheduled for around 6:30pm IST today from Blue Origin's Launch Site One facility located outside Van Horn in Texas,...

NASA administrator Bill Nelson has lauded billionaire Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, who along with five other crew members soared to the edge of the space aboard the VSS Unity spacecraft on Sunday.

Sirisha Bandla, a 34-year-old aeronautical engineer, is set to become the third Indian-origin woman to head to space when she flies as part of Virgin Galactic's first fully crewed flight test on Sunday.

Virgin Galactic's Unity 22 mission marks the 22nd test flight of the spacecraft, and the company's fourth crewed mission beyond Earth's atmosphere. But it will be the first to carry a full complement of space travellers – two pilots and four "mission specialists," Branson among them.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk delivered what no previous human missions to outer space could. The company took four civilian crew members to outer space in a spacecraft with no professional astronauts on board and returned them safely to Earth after three days. While the successful mission was an encouragement to others attempting something similar, the all...

SpaceX's Inspiration4 is scheduled to take off on September 15 at 8:02pm EDT (5:32 am IST on September 16). The launch will be livestreamed on Netflix's YouTube channel and the stream will begin on 7pm EDT (4:30am IST on September 16). Inspiration4 will take four civilians onboard the Falcon 9 spacecraft, which will undertake a three-day mission to...

Chandrayaan-2, India’s lunar spacecraft, has completed over 9,000 orbits around the Moon, ISRO announced Monday. Its imaging and scientific instruments are providing excellent data, as per officials.

The Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation K Sivan on Monday inaugurated a Lunar Science Workshop 2021, to commemorate the completion of two years of operation of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft around the lunar orbit.

Russia said it postponed its first mission to the Moon's surface in decades as a result of "problems" encountered during tests of the Luna-25 spacecraft.

China has said its Zhurong Mars rover will continue exploring Utopia Planitia where it landed on May 14 after completing the initial 90-day program.

NASA agreed to temporarily halt work on lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk's SpaceX after rival billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin sued the US government, an agency spokeswoman said.

Two spacecraft flew past Venus recently in a rare double flyby that captured unique imagery and data. You can watch the video here.

NASA has shared a picture of the moon. The 'false-colour mosaic' was constructed from a series of 53 images captured by the Galileo spacecraft.

Jeff Bezos offered to cover up to $2 billion (roughly Rs. 14,890 crores) in NASA costs if the US space agency awards his company Blue Origin a contract to make a spacecraft designed to land astronauts back on the Moon.

Jeff Bezos created history on Tuesday when he successfully travelled to the edge of space and returned in the spacecraft developed by his company, Blue Origin, accompanied by a crew of three others in the New Shepard spacecraft on his maiden journey to space. Bezos said the experience was beyond what he dreamt of, and said that a future trip should...

Jeff Bezos is set to blast off aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard to space today. He will be joined by an all-civilian crew consisting of his younger brother and the oldest as well as youngest person to travel to space. The launch is scheduled for around 6:30pm IST today from Blue Origin's Launch Site One facility located outside Van Horn in Texas,...

NASA administrator Bill Nelson has lauded billionaire Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, who along with five other crew members soared to the edge of the space aboard the VSS Unity spacecraft on Sunday.

Sirisha Bandla, a 34-year-old aeronautical engineer, is set to become the third Indian-origin woman to head to space when she flies as part of Virgin Galactic's first fully crewed flight test on Sunday.

Virgin Galactic's Unity 22 mission marks the 22nd test flight of the spacecraft, and the company's fourth crewed mission beyond Earth's atmosphere. But it will be the first to carry a full complement of space travellers – two pilots and four "mission specialists," Branson among them.