The space programme has got a Rs 4,959 crore boost, the bulk of it going to fund research in the manned mission programme, cryogenic engines, PSLV and GSLV and space capsule recovery.
? Oct. 22,2008. The 316-tonne PSLV C11, an upgraded version of ISRO's workhorse PSLV, blasted off from Sriharikota in AP with the 1,380-kg Chandrayaan-1, making India the sixth nation to launch a moon mission.
The space shuttle Atlantis, which was launched on May 11 with a crew of seven, returned safely to the earth after one of its most exacting missions, lasting 13 days.
June 5: Claiming that urbanisation and industrialisation, including Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are inevitable to take place in growing India, deputy chairman of planning commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said, acquisition of certain portion of irrigated farmland for the purpose could not be avoided.
There is no crying in space, but Monday was perhaps as close as it gets to a blubberfest in space helmets.
As he headed into the airlock of the space shuttle Atlantis after the fifth and final spacewalk to tune up the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronaut and astronomer John M. Grunsfeld paused to pay tribute to the telescope and the human spirit.
A rocket carrying the largest telescope ever made has been sent into space on a mission that scientists hope will help unravel the mystery of the creation of the universe. The Ariane 5 rocket of the European Space Agency, left, launched Thursday from Kourou, carries the Herschel space telescope and the Planck spacecraft.
The Indian Space Research Organisation(Isro) is working on a plan to launch re-usable rockets within next 10 to 15 years that will take off from the ground to orbit and return just like any aircraft carrying people and payload, said G Madhvan Nair, Chairman of Isro.
