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SRIHARIKOTA, November 18 : Soon after the successful launch of India’s first ever private Rocket launch, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, who was personally present at the launching site, in his very first reaction said , “Congratulations India! A new beginning in India’s Space journey ! Thanks so very much PM Narendra Modi ji for making this effort possible by opening the Space sector to public-private-participation. A turning point for India’s Start-Up movement! Kudos ...

Fiction or grainy footage from decades back when the rocket launches were the first moon landing fifty years ago when it was the soviet union versus the united states in america won the contest to put a man on the moon first today russia is still a player operating the international space station jointly with the u.s. an exercise in peaceful cooperation. but china took a bold step earlier this year when it put a land there on the dark side of the moon. so whats to stop these space powers from tu...

Welcome back to "the lead." the world lead today, china aiming upward with a plan to be among the major space powers in just the next few years. the plan calls for a landing on the dark side of the moon by 2018 and on mars by 2020. thats ambitious for a nation that came pretty late to the space race. china did not launch its first satellite until 1970, just after neil armstrong had walked on the moon. china has been pumping billions into research and training in the decades since. saying it stil...