The solar flare of Feb. 22, 2024, recorded using the eight different filters of the SUIT instrument on board India's Aditya-L1 spacecraft. (Image credit: ISRO/SUIT/Aditya-L1) ...

For India, Poland and Hungary, the launch marked a return to human spaceflight after more than 40 years and the first mission to send their astronauts to the International Space Station.

India’s space future is bright, and with astronauts like Shukla leading the way, we can be confident that India will continue to reach for the stars and achieve new heights in space exploration.

Back in 2014, soon after India successfully launched a robotic probe around the orbit of Mars, The New York Times published a disparaging cartoon which showed a farmer with a cow knocking at a ...