by Charu Thakur | Sep 13, 2024
(September 13, 2024) The ‘majestic blue ball’ is how Gopichand Thotakura described Earth as he saw it for the very first time from space. The 30-year-old scripted history by becoming the first Indian space tourist as he took off in Blue Origin’s New...
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 Global Indian | Jul 19, 2021
(July 19, 2021; 3 pm) The space tourism race is truly heating up: Come July 20, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will take off on board Blue Origin’s rocket system New Shepard. All eyes are now set on the Indian systems engineer at the commercial space flight company who’s...
by Global Indian | Jul 5, 2021
As a child, Sirisha Bandla was always fascinated with the sky. Perhaps that is what drove her to delve into the mysteries of deep space. Today, the 34-year-old astronaut is the second Indian-origin woman, after Kalpana Chawla, to travel to space aboard Virgin...
