First Pakistani astronaut will go into space in 2022: Information Minister

[django]

What will the Pakistani "Space travelers" be called? Any idea?

I believe the Americans use Astronaut
Russians: Cosmonauts
Indians is Vyomnauts or something..Not sure.
Have the Pakistanis come up with a name yet?

Sidd @Retired Troll

Any ideas??

 

[El Sidd]

Sidd @Retired Troll

Any ideas??

Khalai Makhlooq

 

[KAMDEV]

We need Pakistanis in schools/universities not in space.

That's true.

 

[Asimzranger]

This show is becoming a reality it seems

 

[django]

Khalai Makhlooq

And the honour goes to former PM Nawaz Sharif .Kudos Sidd

 

[KAMDEV]

educating people will span a whole generation around 60+ years and it should be started immediately .
just imagine the schools the government could build on 68 bn rupees rather than building a metro in Peshawar.

Yes true.

 

[khansaheeb]

Aim should be to send our own satellite from Pakistan by seeking Chinese expertise

We have all the expertise and just need to eliminate corruption and the corrupts.

 

[Haris Mansoor]

Unfortunately for Pakistan our relationship ruptured and we went astray from Washington which meant by 1970s Pakistan was very much on it's own. South Korea, Turkey, Taiwan kept firmly attached to USA through the decades and leveraged having a superpower to the point where today all three countries are wealthy and developed.

Don't know about others but turkey was in worse conditions before Tayyip Erdogan. so, no US wasn't the reason behind the success of Pakistan

 

[Dubious]

pak could have send their people to space even before spending enough time on making nukes

I think securing our country before saving 1 person by flying him/her to space was more important

what will be the gain ?

Experience?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1055422823769034753

Yea so was dragging Zardari on the streets...Still didnt happen during NS's tenure now did it?

In fact now they shaking hands with the same man they were gonna drag on the streets

 

[Corona]

What space race? The USSR won that already back in the days.

Space doesn't end at the moon.
There's always more space to conquer.

 

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will send a human to space for the first time in 2022 with China's help, its information minister Fawad Chaudhry announced on Thursday, the same year as India plans to launch its manned space mission.

Pakistan's first space mission has been planned for 2022 and the federal Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan approved the plan on Thursday, ahead of his maiden visit to Beijing from November 3.

An agreement between Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) and a Chinese company has already been signed, Chaudhry said.

In his Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an ambitious mission of sending an Indian astronaut to space by 2022, which would make India the fourth nation in the world to do so.

"We have resolved that by 2022, when India celebrates 75 years of Independence or maybe even before that, certainly some of our young boys and girls will unfurl the Tricolour in space," Modi said from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 72nd Independence Day.

Pakistan and China already have robust defence ties and Islamabad is one of the top buyers of Chinese military hardware.

Earlier this year, Pakistan launched two indigenously built satellites into orbit, using a Chinese launch vehicle.

The satellites were launched onboard a Chinese Long March (LM-2C) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre located at the Gobi desert, China.


One of the satellites launched was a remote sensing satellite (PRSS1) – a dual-purpose Earth observational and optical satellite.


The second test satellite launched was a PAK-TES-1A, developed by Space and Upper Atmospheric Research Commission (Suparco) to enhance satellite manufacture capabilities in the country which would help end Pakistan's dependency on commercial satellites for information related to weather, environment and agriculture.


The satellites were transported to China as Pakistan lacks the infrastructure to launch objects, the Express Tribune quoted an official as saying.


China launched its first manned space mission in 2003, becoming the third country in the world to independently develop manned spaceflight, after Russia and the United States.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...-be-in-space-in-2022/articleshow/66366489.cms

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Don't know about others but turkey was in worse conditions before Tayyip Erdogan. so, no US wasn't the reason behind the success of Pakistan

Yes, it was. If you look at South Korea, Taiwan or Singapore etc they are better off now then they were 18 years ago. That is how it works. As decades move forward you rise.

Erdogan has done good job by leveraging Turlish status as a fortified outpost of the western world on it's south east flank. Turkey was and remains steadfast member of the NATO western fraternity and part of the Us-European economic order. It's economy is inexorably linked with the west and most of it's economic success is because of it's exports to Europe. US has continously pushed Europe to give Turkey it's due place inside Europe. Erdogan and his party have fastidiously worked to be part od Europe to the point of even abolishing death penalty despite internal pressure to revoke that.

This below is American F-35 5th gen stealth fighter. Note Turkey is part of the western consortia behind it. The crap you see between Trump and Erdogan is just two big boys acting beyond their boot size. There are dozens of Turks here. Ask them how they feel like leaving the western order and living it up as the 'ummah'.

@xenon54

 

[Peshwa]

Khalai Makhlooq

What does that mean?

 

[El Sidd]

What does that mean?

Its an ancient Gandharan phrase

 

[MIRauf]

Didn't India send a Cosmonaut via USSR/Russia a while back ? or is the news about sending one on your own ?