Posted on 08/23/2024 8:36:40 AM PDT by Salman
India's Department of Space has outlined plans to send its first astronaut to space next year, establish a space station by 2035, and land an Indian on the Moon by 2045.
Minister of Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh called establishing the Bhartiya Antariksh Station – which was first publicly announced in 2019 – and the placing of India’s first man on the Moon as "cornerstone projects" of the nation's space program.
The Bharatiya Antariksha Station is intended to house astronauts for 15 to 20 days at an orbit of around 400km above the Earth and was initially planned to be completed by 2030.
The crewed lunar landing plan date has also slipped from a previous target of 2040.
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And not the United States because the United States is going away.
They were ready to launch but then 500 Indian men jumped on the outside of the rocket trying to hitch a ride.
Dot or feather?
(I might be sari I asked..)
As long as Boeing is not involved, they just might do it.
Why waste the money and risk lives? It would be much easier to film the moon landing in a warehouse like we (USA) did!
Notice how these moon landing dates keep moving further and further out into the future.
There are always a million excuses....
Lol.
It beggars belief why the government of a country where only half the homes have indoor toilets feels the compulsion to spend tax revenues on a moon mission.
Why do the dates slip if it’s all faked? Dates slipping tells me it’s expensive and technically difficult. What do you think is expensive and difficult about faking a moon landing?
I think they really want to go.
They have to unlearn a lot of myths before they can get there.
What “myths”? I thought you guys said it was impossible, which is why the US had to fake it.
It was impossible many decades ago.
Materials science and technology has made rapid advancements in these decades.
Now it is not impossible—it is just very difficult—as folks working the issues are beginning to understand.
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