Blue Origin, led by Jeff Bezos, is gearing up for a landmark mission to Mars, set to launch NASA’s ESCAPADE probes aboard the New Glenn rocket on September 29, 2025. This will mark Blue Origin’s first interplanetary flight and is notable because it precedes any Mars-bound mission from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, whose Starship is still…
Blue Origin, the pioneering space exploration company founded by Jeff Bezos, has taken a bold step into the future by accepting cryptocurrency payments for its space tourism flights. This initiative allows customers worldwide to book seats on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rockets using a variety of digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, USDT, and…
An 80-year-old Agra-born adventurer-cum-businessman, Arvinder ‘Arvi’ Singh Bahal, lifted off to the edge of space aboard Blue Origin’s NS-34 mission along with five other crew members on Sunday. The suborbital flight lifted off from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 6:00 p.m. IST, marking another milestone in private human spaceflight.Bahal was part…
Arvinder “Arvi” Singh Bahal, an 80-year-old adventurer, real estate investor, and seasoned world traveller from Agra, India, is preparing for the journey of a lifetime. On August 3, 2025, Bahal will board Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-34 space tourism mission, joining an elite group of private citizens who have crossed Earth’s atmospheric boundary. For Bahal,…
Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, is preparing for its next milestone in commercial spaceflight. On August 3, 2025, the NS-34 mission will carry six civilians on a suborbital journey aboard the reusable New Shepard rocket. Among the crew is Arvi Singh Bahal, an Indian-origin investor and entrepreneur now based in…
MUMBAI: Tilaknagar Industries, maker of Mansion House brandy is acquiring the Imperial Blue business from the Indian unit of French liquor giant Pernod Ricard in a Rs 4,150-crore all-cash deal to “fast-track” its foray into the whisky segment. The transaction includes deferred payment of Rs 282 crore, to be paid four years after the deal,…
India-born businessman Arvi Bahal is all set to travel to space aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin NS-34 mission. This mission is the 14th human flight under the New Shepard programme and the 34th in its history. Indian-American Bahal will travel to space as part of the six-member crew. So far, Blue Origin has…
Why blue books are making a comeback in US classrooms amid AI concerns. (Representative AI Image) As artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT reshape the way students study and complete assignments, many US colleges are taking a surprising step backward—toward pen, paper, and the iconic blue exam booklet. The humble blue book, first introduced in the…
A new rarely-found amphibian has been discovered in the western Amazon dazzles with its mesmerising bright-blue body and unusual copper highlights on its limbs that makes it even more appealing and noticeable. This creature is a part of the poison dart frog family and is named as Ranitomeya aetherea because of its sky-like tones. Also,…
There was a day when looking at the sky stunned human beings with wonder and fascination. The world seemed limitless, its brilliant bright blue waters, green spaces, and dense layer of leaves. The world symbolised harmony and beauty, full of natural wonders. From the outside space, the planet seen was nothing less than magical. But…