On the island of Sriharikota, 150 kilometres north of Chennai, India has based its launch centre SHAR, the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, named after the research scientist and former president of the ISRO,... more inside

Video from NASA showing the demolition of the Titan Rocket Launch Gantry that took place on April 28th, 2008. It took 200 pounds of high explosives to topple the 6,500 tons of steel.

I hate when this happens.

An extraordinary award winning documentary on the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s... more inside