FEMALE ASTRONAUTS INDIA
Let's send a woman to space India has the highest number of female pilots in the world. As per the Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Indian female pilots make up 14% of its pilot workforce, compared to a global average of 6%. That's not all. IAF started indu...
12 Apr, 2024, 11.04 PM ISTIndia's first human-manned space flight to be launched this year before ISRO's Gaganyaan India's ISRO will send the woman robot astronaut 'Vyommitra' into space ahead of the ambitious 'Gaganyaan' mission. 'Vyommitra' is equipped to monitor module parameters, issue alerts, and execute life support operations. It can operate six panels an...
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India's space economy set to reach USD 40 bn by 2040: Union Minister Jitendra Singh India's space economy is expected to reach USD 40 billion by 2040, with potential estimates projecting it to even reach USD 100 billion, according to Union Minister Jitendra Singh. Currently at around USD 8 million, Singh highlighted significant pro...
26 Nov, 2023, 09.54 AM ISTMore women as astronauts is a part of my wish list: ISRO chairman The Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), S Somanath, has expressed his desire for increased female representation in the country's space missions. While Somanath acknowledged that it won't be feasible to include women in the in...
25 Oct, 2023, 11.15 AM ISTUS wanted India to share space tech post Chandrayaan-3, reveals ISRO Chief Somanath emphasized India's proficiency in building advanced devices and rockets and highlighted the cost-effectiveness and high technology of the instruments used in Chandrayaan-3. He invited the youth to contribute to India's space ambitions and e...
15 Oct, 2023, 03.46 PM ISTChandrayaan missions providing unmatched data for global scientific community: Scientist Debiprosad Duari India's Chandrayaan missions have provided valuable data for the international scientific community, including the discovery of water ice, minerals, and temperature changes on the moon. The missions have paved the way for future moon exploration, in...
12 Sep, 2023, 01.06 PM ISTChandrayaan-3 project cost at Rs 600 cr lower than budgets of some Hollywood films on space, says Union minister The aim of Gaganyaan is to demonstrate the capability to send humans to low earth orbit (LEO) on board an Indian launch vehicle and bring them back to earth safely. ISRO on Friday released a breathtaking video of the Chandrayaan-3 mission's rover 'P...
25 Aug, 2023, 09.55 PM ISTInspired by the Sputnik, India's strides in space since Sarabhai India has made significant progress in the space domain since launching its first satellite, Aryabhata, in 1975. The purview of the Indian Space Programme includes remote sensing, astronomy and astrophysics, atmospheric sciences and space sciences. ...
23 Jul, 2023, 11.52 AM ISTCyclone Biparjoy: 99 trains to remain cancelled in Gujarat till June 18, says Western Railway "23 trains have been cancelled, 3 trains short-terminated and 7 trains short-originated. With this, 99 trains have been cancelled, 39 trains have been short-terminated, while 38 trains short-originated as a precautionary measure till June 18, in vie...
15 Jun, 2023, 11.17 PM ISTIndia to launch Gaganyaan mission by end of 2023 or 2024: Jitendra Singh India plans to launch an unmanned mission and send a female robot in the first and second missions, respectively, preceding the Gaganyaan human space-flight programme by the end of 2023 or in 2024, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday. He ...
18 May, 2023, 10.33 PM ISTISRO to launch 2 missions under Gaganyaan programme in 2023: Union minister Jitendra Singh In an interview, Singh said these missions were envisaged to be launched in the 75th year of Indian independence, but due to the emergence of COVID-19 these programmes were delayed by two to three years.
21 Feb, 2023, 09.23 PM ISTIndia's Gaganyaan mission likely to be launched in 2024, first test-flight this year: Union Minister Jitendra Singh "The COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on the training of astronauts in Russia as well as India," PTI quoted Singh as saying, adding the first test-flight of the Gaganyaan mission is scheduled to take place later this year. The first test-flight will be...
13 Sep, 2022, 04.31 PM ISTPreparations for Gaganyaan completed, says Jitendra Singh, 'Indian origin humans to travel to space next year' Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day address in 2018, wherein he said that an Indian astronaut, be it a man or a woman, will go on a space odyssey by 2022 onboard 'Gaganyaan'.Union Minister of State for the Ministry of Scienc...
11 Jul, 2022, 10.41 AM ISTMission Gaganyaan: Better safe than starry Gaganyaan was announced by Narendra Modi on August 15, 2018. But no one at the time saw the Covid pandemic coming less than two years later, with scientists and aerospace engineers realising that going ahead with a manned mission, a complex endeavou...
18 May, 2022, 11.25 PM ISTUS spacecraft named after late astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who died during a space mission Chawla had made history at NASA as the first female astronaut of Indian descent.
10 Sep, 2020, 10.37 AM ISTIndia, Pakistan should explore space diplomacy for peace: Pakistan astronaut "It is from space that we can rise above politics and from where all borders and boundaries dissolve," Pakistan's first female astronaut said.
17 Sep, 2019, 07.43 PM ISTPakistan's first female astronaut congratulates ISRO on Chandrayaan-2; says 'giant leap' for South Asia Considered as the "most complex" stage of the country's second expedition to the Moon, the lander was on a powered decent for a soft landing when it lost contact.
09 Sep, 2019, 04.36 PM IST- Record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson set to return home
Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who holds the record for maximum time spent in space by any American astronaut, is set to return to Earth on Saturday, completing a 288-day mission at the International Space Station.
02 Sep, 2017, 11.17 AM IST - NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson breaks US spaceflight record
Washington, April 24 (IANS) Commander of the International Space Station's Expedition 51 crew, Peggy Whitson officially set the US record on Monday for most cumulative days in space, surpassing NASA astronaut Jeff Williams' record of 534 days.
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