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Growing up in Space Age: We need a moonshot of the first footstep on Mars

Moonshot is necessary not because more flags need to be planted and more footsteps left behind on a distant world, but because of the need to inspire present and future generations

Isro conducts Chandrayaan-2 Moon lander's deorbit manoeuvre successfully

Deorbiting manoeuvres involve the firing of the spacecraft's engines to slow down its pace and bring it closer to the Moon's surface

Chandrayaan-2 performs 3rd lunar-bound orbit maneuver; landing in 11 days

India's second lunar expedition -- would shed light on a completely unexplored section of the Moon, its South Polar region

Isro to set up new centre to protect Indian satellites from space debris

Isro has set up a Directorate of Space Situational Awareness and Management aimed at protecting high-value space assets

Understanding time dilation: A year in space makes you older or younger?

How space travel and long-duration missions might change the human body, and whether those changes are permanent or reversible once astronauts return to Earth, is largely unknown

India should seek US, Russia's help for 2022 space mission: Ex-Isro chief

Life support system and conditioning of astronauts for the space environment is one of the key technological challenges