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Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla praises India's view from ISS, recalling Rakesh Sharma's words. Details on Axiom 4 mission and ...
I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...
The Axiom 4 (Ax-4) crew Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot Shubhanshu "Shux" Shukla, and Mission Specialists Slawosz "Suave" ...
Compensation deal for victims of Nazi forced-labor; Apollo-Soyuz mission; Julius Rosenberg arrested; anti-French revolt in ...
On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched its Luna 15 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Luna 15 was a robotic sample ...
India still looks ‘saare jahan se accha’ from space, astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla said Sunday, wrapping up his 18-day stay at ...
On July 13, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Luna 15, an unmanned spacecraft seen as a rival to the American Apollo 11 mission, which launched just three days later. Luna 15’s goal was to land on the ...
The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.
He wished me well and parted with an old (and I mean very old; it first appeared in literature in 1386 in "Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales") proverb: “He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.” ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort to resurrect a secretive Soviet design for an aircraft that skims just ...
The 1960s were a big deal for space stuff. It was a time when countries raced to see who could do more in space, and it ...
Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...