Posted on 10/19/2023 8:09:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
After a series of successful space exploration milestones, including the launch of the Aditya-L1 solar observation mission shown here, the Indian government says it plans on building an Indian space station by 2035 and landing an Indian crew on the moon by 2040. File Photo by Piyal Adhikary/EPA-EFE Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The Indian government wants an Indian space station by the year 2035 and a crewed Indian mission to land on the moon by 2040.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office announced the goals after a meeting to update the prime minister on the progress of India's Gaganyaan program, which intends to pave the way for independent crewed Indian missions into space.
"It was noted that around 20 major tests, including three uncrewed missions of the Human Rated Launch Vehicle (HLVM3) are planned," the prime minister's office said in a press release Tuesday.
In August, India's Chandryaan-3 lunar mission successfully set down on the moon.
In September, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, which will study solar magnetic storms emanating from the sun, successfully departed.
"The Department of Space presented a comprehensive overview of the Gaganyaan Mission, including various technologies developed so far such as human-rated launch vehicles and system qualification," the prime minister's office said.
The Indian Space Research Organization is testing the Gaganyaan capsule and hopes to fly crewed missions in the next few years.
"The Department of Space will develop for moon exploration. This will encompass a series of Chandrayaan missions, the development of the Next Generation Lauch Vehicle (NGLV)," the prime minister's office said.
India's first astronaut, Rakesh Sharma, spent time aboard the Soviet Salyut 7 space station in 1984.
Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to travel to space in 1997, when she flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. In 2003, Chawla was killed when the Columbia disintegrated while reentering the atmosphere.
When you have a population in excess of a billion people, you gotta make plans..........................
And they want NASA and the American taxpayers to pay for it. Thank God Armstrong was first. We would have never been able to understand what a guy from India was trying to tell us.
That’s no moon. It’s a space station.
That’s no moon.....It’s a Convenience Store!..............
They’re sending their people to America so we can feed them so they’ll have the money to go to the moon. Nice.
The delay is due to logistics issues as they study spacesuits for cows.
What about toilets?
Just a hole in the floor of the space ship...............
I was wondering what all those arms were!....................
India is feeling its oats.
They together with China have come a long way in a short time.
India now rules their former colonizer - Britain. The PM is Indian as well as the mayor of London.
Indians also run a lot of big American corporations
HA!!!!
Of course all net zero carbon right.
I see what you did there. 😂👍
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They way things are going now, the Earth’s surface may indeed look like the Moon by 2040, so they won’t have to go far.
Don’t forget motels.
We’ll leave the light on for ya!................
More like, “We will be leaving many lights on at all times.”
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