The decision was heavily influenced by the lessons learned from the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, both of which were caused by overlooked technical issues that resulted in the ...

Amid reports that the astronauts are 'stranded' in space with the spacecraft having only 27 days of fuel left, NASA said they could undock and fly home at any time if deemed necessary. NASA said ...

Banarasi Lal Chawla, the father of India’s first female astronaut and aerospace engineer late Kalpana Chawla, was admitted at the Karnal’s Amritdhara hospital a few days ago and he breathed ...

Chawla’s journey began in 1997, becoming the first Indian-born woman in space, and later serving on STS-107 in 2003, dedicated to microgravity experiments aboard Columbia. The STS-107 mission ...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Orbital, which features six astronauts on a space station, is about perception, about the idea of ‘big’ and ‘small’, ‘reality’ and ‘illusion’ and about taking a hard ...