Historic Space Crowds In a groundbreaking achievement for space exploration, a record-setting 19 astronauts were simultaneously in space on Thursday. This is an unprecedented event, surpassing the previous record set in May 2023, when 17 astronauts were in space at the same time. Breaking Down the Numbers Here’s how this cosmic crowd was made up: … Read more
Richard Branson Message From Space Onboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity, billionaire Richard Branson, who is also a commercial astronaut, reached the edge of space on Sunday, only days before his fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos’ journey to space on July 20. Branson, the Virgin Group’s founder, is now the world’s first person to go to space … Read more
Sirisha Bandla becomes first Telugu woman to fly into space, kin express happiness Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic revealed his maiden journey to space just ahead of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and the billionaire would be joined by an Indian aboard. Sirisha Bandla, the company’s vice president of government relations and research operations, will be one … Read more
Space on Wheels, a mobile exhibition unit of ISRO, is taking the space research organisation’s story to schoolchildren in the district. The bus exhibition kick-started at GHS-Mahabubabad on Monday and will tour six places over the next two days — Mahabubabad, Kuravi and Dornakal on Tuesday and Maripeda, Danthlapally and Thorrur on Wednesday, said district … Read more
Researchers have discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA’s Kepler mission. Over its original four-year mission, the Kepler satellite looked for planets, especially those that lie in the “Habitable Zones” of their stars, where liquid water could exist on a rocky planet’s surface, the study … Read more
India captain Virat Kohli said Team India will look to cut out the outside noise and do whatever that is required to comeback from the 10-wicket loss against New Zealand in Wellington. Virat Kohli said there are a lot of people who want to get into their head knowing they are a side ‘who can … Read more