ISRO (India): manned spaceflight by 2015?

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They've been busy;<br /><br />Flight International....<br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p><b>Indian government considers astronaut proposals</b><br /><br />By Radhakrishna Rao<br /><br />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).<br /><br />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 (Wiki article....).<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

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Nice!<br /><br />Does this mean curry chicken in space? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#0000ff"><em>"SCE to AUX" - John Aaron, curiosity pays off</em></font></p> </div>