by Charu Thakur | Mar 4, 2025
(March 4, 2025) His lifelong fascination with space became a reality on February 25, 2025. Growing up, Tushar Shah would stare at the night sky, wondering what it must be like beyond Earth’s atmosphere. That childhood curiosity turned into reality when he...
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 Amrita Priya | Jan 21, 2023
(January 21, 2023) “An exciting time to be at NASA as the agency along with industry prepare to return crews to the moon,” tweeted AC Charania, eleven days after he assumed office as NASA’s new chief technologist. He also posted a link to the upcoming Artemis III...
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...
