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India to Hoist Tricolor on Moon by 2020
Techtree News Staff, Jan 06, 2009 0830 hrs ISTISRO working on new, modified versions of the PSLV to equip it for extremely complex future missions
India's ambitious space plans were revealed http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20090104/812/tnl-india-plans-to-hoist-tricolour-on-mo.html by an official at the 96th Indian Space Conference organized at Shillong.
According to IANS, post Chandrayaan's success, ISRO (India Space Research Organization) scientists have their eyes set on even more missions to our nearest celestial neighbor. The ISRO expects to host the tricolor on the moon by the year 2020. Apart from lunar missions, ISRO expects to execute India's first manned space mission by the year 2015, and they are working on a plan to send a two-member crew into space and to put them in an orbit about 200 kms above the earth's surface.While Indians and people of Indian origin have been to space earlier, it is always great when you go in your country's spacecraft instead of piggybacking on vehicles of other countries.
ISRO is reportedly working on new, modified versions of its workhorse, the PSLV, so that it would be equipped appropriately for these extremely complex future missions. There are also plans for a mission to Mars by the year 2020. Apart from all these plans, the Chandrayaan 2 project is already on. While the ongoing Chandrayaan mission only involved the craft orbiting the moon and mapping it - except for the little Moon Impact Probe which hit the moon surface - the next iteration reportedly involves sending a rover onto the moon's surface.
By the look of things, it's going to be a one hectic decade for our scientists at ISRO!
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