Today marks the birthday of Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to journey into space, who was born on January 13, 1949, in Patiala, Punjab. Sharma’s historic space mission in 1984 not only etched ...

Kalpana Chawla, the first woman of Indian origin in space, flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997, but tragically died in the 2003 Columbia disaster. Sunita Williams, an American astronaut of Indian ...

In 1982, India and the Soviet Union signed an agreement for collaborative space exploration between the Indian Air Force and Soviet Interkosmos. Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma was selected from 150 ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

Rakesh Sharma is the Co-Founder, Managing Director, and CEO at Fox Capital.

The milestones, heartbreaks, and discoveries that shaped NASA's 30-year shuttle program. NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies during ...

Bajaj Auto Ltd is confident of a leadership position in the electric two-wheeler space, led by sales of ... the company’s Executive Director Rakesh Sharma said today. “While we have performed ...

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...