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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ms Bandla is the second woman born in India to go to space after Kalpana Chawla who died when the Columbia Space Shuttle crashed at re-entry in 2003. The rocket flew high above New Mexico in the ...

Third Indian-American to join NASA Chari is the third Indian-American astronaut to join NASA after Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams. Space scientist Chawla was born in Karnal, Haryana ...

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 ...