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Isro is currently working on several other missions as it looks to conduct its first human spaceflight launch with the Gaganyaan mission. (Photo: Isro)

Isro had in May this year successfully conducted a static fire test of the boosters that will power India’s maiden astronaut mission. While the four unnamed Indian Air Force officers continue to train for the mission, the ground qualification tests of launch vehicle propulsion stages have also been commenced and successfully progressing.

Being developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, the Gaganyaan crew module will be the first indigenous spacecraft to take Indian astronauts into space and return them safely to Earth.

We have collected that series into this new, free e-book, The American Alley: A Hidden Resource. The e-book includes the full text of the articles, along with additional illustrations and two appendices that go deeper on the design principles of the world’s most beloved “minor streets.”

Whether you’re an incremental developer, a housing or walkability advocate, a local official trying to grow your city’s tax base, or a homeowner who wants to build an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on your property, The American Alley will help you understand why alleys were forgotten in the first place…and spur your imagination for what’s possible, now.

The monstrous people spiral of a nearby galaxy is just one of many Webb telescope images to come over the coming days, weeks, and years.

The new James Webb Space Telescope image shows NGC 628 as a swirling, dusty skeleton more like something from a Marvel movie than a spiral galaxy.

In an interview with The Independent, Gabriel Brammer, one of the researchers at the Cosmic Dawn Center at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, said the galaxy looks like our own Milky Way.