The Venus Orbiter Mission is India’s first dedicated space mission to study the planet Venus. Recently, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has unveiled the launch schedule for its Venus ...

Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event live in school. Forty years later, many of those ...

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Forty years ago today, Americans were stunned, shocked and saddened when the Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on a cold, cloudless day in Florida. A booster leak ignited the ...