Submission + - Indians on Moon by 2020
turgid writes: The Hindustan Times and New Asia Times report that the Indian Space Research Organisation plans to land an Indian on the Moon by 2020.
First, experiments will be conducted to launch and recover a capsule using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). Later, manned orbital missions will be launched on a GSLV Mark II rocket, initially for a day, but eventually lasting a week or more. Expeditions to the Moon are expected to last 15 days to a month.
The ISRO sees human space exploration as vital to India's technological and economic develpment and argues that the human brain is a far superior resource to have on a spacecraft than any robot or other scientific instrument.
First, experiments will be conducted to launch and recover a capsule using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). Later, manned orbital missions will be launched on a GSLV Mark II rocket, initially for a day, but eventually lasting a week or more. Expeditions to the Moon are expected to last 15 days to a month.
The ISRO sees human space exploration as vital to India's technological and economic develpment and argues that the human brain is a far superior resource to have on a spacecraft than any robot or other scientific instrument.