India blasted into the international space race Wednesday with the successful launch of an ambitious two-year mission to study the moon’s landscape. The unmanned lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1, or “moon craft” in ancient Sanskrit, launched at 6:20 a.m. (8:50 p.m. ET) from the Sriharikota space center in southern India.
Now this is what you call a real [...]

Just about a year since we sent up a space tourist with our tax money, we are already contemplating on how we are going to blow more money on sending another one up. Apparently the 2nd chap who didnt get to go up has been crying and refused to come out from under his bed [...]

Few of us at the office were comparing how much space their web mail provider gave them.I always thought that Gmail gave the most amount of space but guess what?
Have a look at the pictures below.
Gmail

Hotmail

5GB!! Thats a lot of space! I have never utilized even 1Gb at one point of time ever!! The “space [...]

 
Breaking news!! Our Angkasawan apparently is now a scientist too!!
This is the latest addition of tittles Dr Sheikh rapidly growing list of titles was from Tan Sri Dr Ahmad Zaharudin Idrus, former science advisor to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Dr Sheikh apparently also was assisting Russian aerospace engineer Yuri Malenchenko with some repairs [...]

Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft carrying Malaysia’s first astronaut Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha blasted-off into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at exactly 9.21pm .Im glad that everything went well and there was a live telecast on Astro last night showing the whole blast-off unfold.
My favourite part of the program was the bit when [...]

Have you been reading the our latest attempt of buying success??
Its called the Angkasawan Program!! On the October 10, 2007 our very own
Angkasawan/Space Tourist. How did this whole thing come along??
Apparently we bought some Sukhoi Su-30  for our defence and it was a freebie that was thrown in, its like getting a free toy when [...]