“Eagle has landed” were the words that Neil Armstrong relayed back to the base station when the Apollo 11 mission landed on the surface of the moon. It indeed was a giant leap for mankind as it was the first-ever manned mission to an extraterrestrial body. From 1969 till today, …
Read More »Vikram has Landed – Triumph of Chandrayaan 2
“500, 200, 100, 75, 30, 10, 5, 2.1,.,.,…” those were some tense moments a few hours ago. At 01:55 hours, not only were the scientists at ISRO following Chandrayaan 2, there were a billion of us. The final moments of Vikram lander were quite close to an ECG reporting heartbeats. …
Read More »Watch Chandrayaan 2 landing live stream – giant step for India in space
“Vision 2020″ a drawing competition that I participated in when I was in 2nd grade. It’s been decades since I won that competition. I remember painting a picture with a boy dreaming about cars, trucks and planes going from Earth to Mars. Well, I wasn’t completely wrong. NASA has already …
Read More »ISRO’s Antrix Website Hacked
The commercial website of Indian Space Research Organization or ISRO is hacked, reportedly by Chinese Hackers. The hacked website www.antrix.gov.in is pointing to a website to buy Baseball jerseys which claims to be providing free shipping in China. Just last week the ISRO had achieved a great feat. by launching 5 satellites using its …
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