Artemis II is hardly the first spacecraft with toilet troubles. Post its safe return on Saturday, journalist Gulu Ezekiel recalls a conversation with US astronaut Dr Mary L Cleave, who’d jettisoned waste water from the Atlantis shuttle, resulting in a streak that was dubbed ‘Cleave’s Comet’. Talk about trailblazers!

Yogi Adityanath urged time-bound action to make Uttar Pradesh a deep-tech hub, focusing on AI, quantum computing, drones and green hydrogen. With support from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, the state plans a major innovation hub in Noida.