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  1. India's first space tourist Santhosh George Kulangara is ...

    He is set to become India's first space tourist, having booked his seat back in 2007 in one of the proposed paid commercial space flights to be launched by Richard Branson 's Virgin Galactic ...

  2. Shelling out Rs 1.8cr for trip, but it's truly worth it: Santosh George

    Shelling out Rs 1.8 crore for trip, but it's truly worth it: Man who could be India's first space tourist Kerala-based media entrepreneur and travel chronicler Santhosh George Kulangara is set to fulfil his dream of travelling to space as part of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic mission, rejuvenated after a few hiccups along the way.

  3. Santhosh George Kulangara, India's first space tourist, ready to fly

    The space trips made by Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have rekindled the hopes of Kerala-based solo traveller Santhosh George Kulangara, the first Indian space tourist selected by the Virgin Group. Kulangara, known for his travelogues and travel documentaries, had cleared the selection process for space ...

  4. Space tourism: After Branson, Bezos, India's first-ever space tourist

    Perhaps then, he's the ideal candidate to become India's first space tourist. Santhosh's entanglement with space tourism has its origins in 2005 when, during a visit to England, he spied an inconspicuous ad in a newspaper inviting applications for space travel. The ad discussed giving the average person a chance to go where no other tourist had ...

  5. Meet Santhosh George Kulangara

    Kerala-based entreprenuer Santhosh George Kulangara could become the first person from India to become space tourist. Kulangara was selected by Branson's Virgin Galactic as a paid space tourist in 2007. Kulangara is a traveller and entrepreneur and he is also the founder of Safari TV, a channel dedicated to travel and exploration.

  6. Kerala Bizman Could be India's First Space Tourist, May Get ...

    Santhosh George Kulangara, a solo traveller, entrepreneur and the founder of travel and exploration channel Safari TV, was the first Indian selected to be a paid space tourist by Branson's Virgin Galactic, in 2007. He is now a part-time member of the Kerala State Planning Board. According to a report by the Indian Express, as Kulangara gears ...

  7. Kerala traveller to be India's first space tourist aboard Virgin Galactic

    Kulangara, who is the first Indian space tourist selected by Virgin Galactic said that with the company getting all mandatory permissions to fly to space and the first carrier taking off, the ...

  8. Santhosh George Kulangara is about to become India's firs...

    His voyage to space might have happened a lot sooner but the space programme found itself riddled with setbacks including failed launches and a pandemic ... AGENCY Politics Gen Z News Technology Culture The Future

  9. Meet the man who could be India's first space tourist

    Meet Santhosh George Kulangara, a travel chronicler and media entrepreneur from Kerala, India. Kulangara could be the first space tourist from India, selected to fly in the Virgin Galactic mission back in 2007. The start of space tourism Billionaires like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos took suborbital space flights through their companies and the space […]

  10. Space tourism program by ISRO: All you need to know

    India Today Information Desk. New Delhi, UPDATED: Mar 17, 2023 11:57 IST. The space tourism program is like a dream. ISRO has ensured that it will become a reality in the near future. The wealthy will be able to wear space suits, board rocket-powered modules, and travel to space by 2030. "Work is in progress around India's very own tourism ...

  11. 'Born early:' Rakesh Sharma, first and only Indian in space, on

    With the triumphant landing of Chandrayaan 3 near the lunar south pole, India marked a momentous stride in its space endeavours. Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to go to space, expressed that a ...

  12. Rakesh Sharma: Our First Space Man

    Published On: Nov 9, 2018. --- ENDS ---. IAF officer Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma flew aboard a Soyuz T11 spacecraft on April 2, 1984, and became the first Indian to journey into space. He spent 7 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes aboard the Salyut 7 orbital station along with two Soviet astronauts. He describes the incredible experience in his own words.

  13. History of India's Space Journey

    Aryabhatta, 1975: India's first satellite Rohini Satellite (RS-1), 1980: Got India to enter an exclusive club as it's as the sixth member of space-faring nations. India's Space Mission, 1984: Indo-Soviet Manned Mission where Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian Citizen to flew into space Chandrayan, 2008: First lunar mission, launch from ...

  14. 'Space Tourism: The Next Frontier'

    'Space Adventures was the first agency in the field of Space Tourism. The agency was started by US billionaire Richard Garriot in 1998. The agency offered brokered rides aboard the Russian Soyuz Rockets' Dr. Punita informed. ... Government of India as an autonomous scientific organisation. It coordinates the activities of 25 Science Centres ...

  15. Gaganyaan is the First Step in India's Grand Space Ambitions

    The first uncrewed flight, called 'Gaganyaan 1', is scheduled to launch next year on a GSLV Mark III rocket. The spacecraft will be launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Srihariikota. ... Gaganyaan could possibly open the doors for space tourism in India. Aakash Porwal, Founder of Space Aura, also concurs with this belief.

  16. First space tourist: 'It was the greatest moment of my life'

    CNN —. On April 30, 2001, US millionaire Dennis Tito arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) via a Russian Soyuz rocket, becoming the world's first space tourist. For Tito, then 60 ...

  17. Remembering Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian American to go to space

    Man: Dr. Kalpana Chawla, also a rookie Mission Specialist. John Yang: In 1997, Kalpana Chawla realized her lifelong dream of traveling to space. She was the first American of Indian descent to ...

  18. The Fascinating Story of India's First Rocket launch

    Transported on a Bicycle, Launched from a Church: The Amazing Story of India's First Rocket Launch. On November 21 1963, that a small rocket took off from Thumba on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram, announcing the birth of the modern space age in India. This is the interesting story of Indian space history's first milestone.

  19. ISRO's role in India's private space sector boom

    Start-ups began to take root in India in the early 2010s with the first space start-up, Dhruva Space Private Limited, being established in 2012 in Hyderabad. Soon after, several other space start ...

  20. Spacetech Startups In India: Exploring The Final Frontier

    On August 23, 2023, India became the first country to land a spacecraft on the unexplored south pole of the moon with Chandrayaan-3. It was a remarkable moment for Indian space technology.

  21. "Pioneering Gaganyatri": ISRO Chief Applauds India's Only Astronaut

    Group Captain Ravish Malhotra, who trained alongside Mr Sharma and was a standby cosmonaut, never flew into space. Now 81 years old, he went on to help create one of India's most vibrant aerospace ...

  22. Space Tourism

    The first Gaganyaan manned mission, primarily a research mission to show an indigenous capability to conduct human space flight missions, has not yet been launched, and space tourism in India has been long delayed. If all test missions are successful, the human mission is planned to launch between 2024 and 2025.

  23. World's 1st space tourist signs up for flight around moon

    The world's first space tourist wants to go back — only this time, he's signed up for a spin around the moon aboard Elon Musk's Starship. For Dennis Tito, 82, it's a chance to relive the ...

  24. [Solved] Who was the first Indian to go to space as a space tourist?

    Santosh George Kulangara was the person in India to go in space as a space tourist after paying a whopping $ 200,000 and booked a seat in Virgin Galactic. Santosh George is a resident of Kerala. Download Solution PDF.

  25. India's space startup Agnikul delays maiden rocket launch again

    Last month, Kairos, a small, solid-fuel rocket made by Japan's Space One, exploded seconds into its inaugural launch as the firm tried to become the first Japanese company to put a satellite in orbit.

  26. Watch India's prototype space plane ace a landing test (video)

    The 21-foot-long (6.5 meters) prototype space plane, known as Pushpak, was released by an Indian Air Force Chinook helicopter at an altitude of 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) and autonomously landed ...

  27. What happens if it's cloudy for the April 8 solar eclipse?

    On July 10, 1972, at my very first total solar eclipse, my family and I were located just outside Cap-Chat, Quebec, a sleepy Canadian community of 2,000 whose population swelled to nearly 30,000 ...

  28. I've been laid off 5 times. The first one was devastating

    Apr 5, 2024, 2:00 AM PDT. Betty Wong Ortiz has experienced five layoffs in the span of eight years. Andry Djumantara/Getty Images. Betty Wong Ortiz has worked in media, startups, and tech. She's ...