Watch India launch 2 satellites on a space docking test flight on Dec. 30 (video)

[Admin]

Liftoff is set for 11:38 a.m. EST (9:58 p.m. IST) from ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

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[tezzason]

All well and good with this ambitious program, but sentiments about building a space station and missions to the moon are jumping the gun a tad, when ISRO has yet to launch astronauts into low earth orbit and is relying 100% on Roscosmos to train Indian candidate - three at this time - astronauts in the Russian Federation.

 

[thoth]

As someone wise said " a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." When JFK talked about putting a man on the moon, it might have sounded like like a pipe dream. Let's not scoff at those who dream, who aspire to do more than seems possible today.

 

[Syed Maqbool Ahmed]

We all remember the famous Rice University lecture by President Kennedy ...

In India too we had our President Kalam; who inspired team ISRO take that giant leap; hence the Indians never looked back after reaching the moon; becoming the 1st ever nation to reach Mars in their maiden attempt. While during the 1st lunar mission; India invited 6-payloads out of the 11-they carried. They never looked back; by building 5-for the Mars, 11 and 13 for the lunar 2,3 missions and 7-for Sun. The present launch; though taking a huge leap in docking; the other 24-experiments carried on the used portion 4th rocket stage is another master stroke by Indian frugal engineering.