Posted on 08/15/2018 7:22:23 AM PDT by C19fan
India will send a manned flight into space by 2022, premier Narendra Modi pledged during his annual 'Independence Day' speech.
If the country successfully completes the flight, it will become the fourth country to ever achieve the feat, following in the footsteps of Russia, United States and China.
India has yet to select the astronauts that will travel aboard the ship, but confirmed the cosmonauts could be men or women.
Active since the 1960s, India's space programme has launched scores of satellites for itself and other countries, including a satellite that now orbits Mars.
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How very uninclusive of them...
This always cracks me up:
Big effing deal.
The space station people will be so pleased to finally be able to go out on the shuttle and get a quick pair of taquitos and a squishy.
Am I correct that cosmonauts come from Russia, and astronauts from the first world? I think Indian space travelers would be kasamanauts, from the Hindi term kasamas, but that's speculation on my part.
In any case, I wish them well.
India seems to be making nice progress towards a fully reusable launch stack. They will probably be second after Spacex.
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India seems to be making nice progress towards a fully reusable launch stack. They will probably be second after Spacex.
We should put a stop to them entering space. Shut the program down, send Indians home to fix and clean up that filthy and violent country. Don’t understand why we didn’t maintain sanctions after they started testing and building nuclear weapons. Our US dollars has made a future enemy, put a stop to them now.
Gonna throw up.
Tell China that India called Xi Winnie the Pooh and let those two suckholes fight it out.
This rocket built by former H1-B labor.
Curry-flavored outer space, ommmmmm.
You raise an excellent point.
With so many people in India living in dire poverty this decision is not going to be universally popular.
Russia and China are also relatively poor countries per capita. Putting a man in orbit is not that difficult for a country that already has a good missile program, as all three do. The question is to what purpose? Manned spaceflight has largely been a waste of money. The ISS is winding down. The moon is old news. Going to Mars is a suicide mission.
Why not astronauts?
Why use a Russian word?
What...no mentally ill trannies ? !
Which is treason for us to have hired and trained him with American know how and ingenuity and our technology.
Huge percentage of their population does #2 outside in the street ... manned space flight ... what could go wrong?
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