The petitioner brought up concerns about a majority of the citizens living in areas that are in high risk for earthquakes, citing that nearly three quarters of the Indians reside in areas deemed as highly prone to seismic activity.
Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing attempt in 1970, has died aged 97.
Despite starting its space research programme almost a decade earlier than India, Pakistan is gearing up to land a spacecraft on the Moon by 2035, as stated by the country's Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal
The recent return of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams from an unexpectedly prolonged mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) marks yet another milestone in humanity’s evolving relationship with space.
Dr Jitendra Singh highlighted the historic landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon's South Pole, a feat that astonished the world and established India as a leader in space exploration.
Given the rich history of lunar expeditions, particularly the Apollo programme, which provided groundbreaking technologies for human landings, the ambitious goal of returning humans to the Moon appears to be within reach. The Apollo-11 mission marked a historic milestone in 1969 and the Apollo 17 concluded the series as the final human lunar mission in 1972. While the focus in recent years has been on robotic missions for scientific experiments, the excitement of landing and working on Moon adds a different dimension to it
Japanese lunar exploration company ispace has successfully launched a lander on lunar orbit.
The Crew-4 mission launched at 3:52 a.m. EDT on April 27 on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Less than 16 hours later, Dragon docked to the Harmony module's space-facing port.
The US space agency has met all objectives for the launch, including the key hydrogen leak threat which has resulted in two failure attempts.
The American space agency is targeting liftoff on August 29 between 8:33 a.m. ET and 10:33 a.m. ET. Artemis I will not carry astronauts, nor land on the moon, however, the mission is critical to demonstrating that NASA's monster rocket and deep space capsule can deliver on their promised abilities.
