Mumbai: Has the path-breaking discovery of water on the moon by Chandrayaan-1 robbed Indian scientists of their due? Some Indian lunar scientists feel that their role has been completely sidelined by their American counterparts, who were also a part of the Rs 386-crore lunar mission.
Astronauts will not be sent by the US to the Moon or Mars for at least a decade, but they can still get an idea of what it would be like by living 65ft underwater.
On Monday, a crew of six, including two veteran astronauts, descended to Aquarius, an undersea laboratory next to a coral reef about three miles off Key Largo, Florida.
Washington: Nasa is looking forward to flying a plasma-powered rocket to survey an asteroid that could take astronauts to Mars in a little over a month
Mumbai: The smallest Indian satellite, promising to send Indian education into a higher orbit, will leave the Isro Satellite Centre in Bangalore and move to Sriharikota for integration with the four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) for launch on May 9.
The Planning has slashed Commission has slashed funding for the programme to send a manned mission to the moon by 2015. The Human Space Flight Programme, earlier allocated Rs 238 crores, will now get only Rs 30 crores because the commission wants to allocate the rest for a rural job scheme.
Thiruvananthapuram, 18 April: A team of Indian space scientists has established that the indigenously built cryogenic engine had ignited for a second during the failed GSLV mission Thursday.
Sriharikota (AP): The first test flight of India's indigenously developed cryogenic upper stage was "not successful" as the vehicle lost control 293 seconds after the launch and crashed into the Bay of Bengal.
