53rd Anniversary Of The First Woman To Fly In Space

Today, flying out to Mars with a one way ticket is all the rage. Half a century back people were only dreaming about the moon. While it was only an ambition for some, there was a lady who actually thought…

Modi Paid Homage To The Crew Of Space Shuttle Columbia & Met Late Kalpana Chawla’s Family

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid a wreath at the Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Modi paid homage to Indian-American astronaut, late Kalpana Chawla in the presence of astronaut Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams’ family. Modi also interacted…

Kalpana Chawla: These Lesser Known Facts About The First Female Indian Astronaut Are Simply Astonishing.

Kalpana Chawla first Indian female Indian-American Astronaut to go to space. She was born as an ordinary girl on 17th March in a small town of Karnal in Haryana, but her extraordinary choices to follow her dreams made her inspiration…

‘Amateur astronauts’ will send a person into space in 2017

Copenhagen Suborbitals currently consists of 50 people — engineers, mathematicians and a kindergarten teacher — who are trying to send a person to space using only off-the-shelf components — the kind you would find in your local hardware store. “All…