by Charu Thakur | Aug 15, 2024
(August 15, 2024) It was in the April of 1984 that Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma along with two cosmonauts from the Soviet Union (flight engineer Gennady Strekalov and commander Yury Malyshev) flew on board Soyuz T-11 to the space station Salyut 7. This historic moment...
by Namrata Srivastava | Apr 22, 2024
(April 22, 2024) Nearly forty years following Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma’s journey aboard Soyuz T-11 into space, another Indian is poised to soar among the stars once more. Entrepreneur and and aviator, Gopichand Thotakura, has been selected as part of the...
by Namrata Srivastava | Feb 1, 2023
(February 1, 2023) I was on a call with NASA’s Mission Control, Houston for about an hour before my 10:30 pm interview with SpaceX Crew-3 Commander Raja Jon Vurputoor ‘Grinder’ Chari, which was scheduled to be telecasted live on NASA TV on January 28, 2022....
by Namrata Srivastava | Oct 13, 2022
(October 13, 2022) About 15 minutes into our conversation, Dr. Ravi Margasahayam told me that he once had a chance meeting with mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who taught him a very important lesson – something he still lives by. “It was 1973, I was in...
by Darshana Ramdev | Apr 24, 2022
(April 24, 2022) On February 19, 2022, the NG-17 Cygnus arrived at the International Space Station, with Indian-origin astronaut Raja Chari taking the lead on the mission. The Cygnus freighter spacecraft went bearing a very unusual load – The Moon Gallery. This...
