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  • ISRO (India): manned spaceflight by 2015

    Click the link in the text & get a load of their booster. They've been busy

    Flight International....

    Indian government considers astronaut proposals

    By Radhakrishna Rao

    A detailed feasibility proposal for the first Indian manned spaceflight mission has been submitted for approval to the New Delhi government by its Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

    The proposal gives a timeframe of 2014-15 for the first flight of a 4,000kg (8,800lb) manned capsule into a low-Earth orbit of 400km (248 miles) using the proposed three-stage, cryogenic propellant fuelled Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MkIII rocket.

    ISRO, in association with the Indian air force's Institute of Aviation Medicine, is planning to set up a facility in Bangalore to train potential Indian astronauts.

    The organisation is working on its robotic Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission, set for launch in March or April 2008, and is to investigate making the Chandrayaan-2 mission a Moon lander rather than an orbiter.

    "We will be finalising the nature of the mission in about a year's time. So all the valuable contributions by way of suggestions would be welcome from you all," ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair told the Indian scientific community.

    He added that the agency now has the capability to launch a 500kg orbiter to Mars, which if launched could contribute to international efforts to identify preferable Martian outpost locations.

    The ISRO robotic mission roadmap includes an asteroid fly-by mission or an impactor that would ram into a near-Earth object in the second half of the next decade.
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    They really have more pressing matters, IMHO, than to throw money at manned spaceflight and nuclear weapons.
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    • #3
      Our outsourcing money at work!!!

      Good for them, maybe they can prove something to the rest of the world..."work hard to achieve"

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      • #4
        I'm going to go with Az on this one. They have 1 billion+ people, a crappy infrastrcture, huge amounts of poverty, etc. But my guess would be they are going up into space to keep an eye on Pakistan more than anything else. Maybe a little bit of scientific cureosity...
        “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
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