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India to launch its first astronauts into space by 2015

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Have some more blurry images of mars.


Tell me more about this Russian made capsule?





His soul must be singing

Ye lal rang pata nahi musze kab chhodega?

ON TOPIC- Nice Images
 
Then what did you think I was doing idiot?

Were you born in a cesspool I wonder?



Russian capsule? You mean Shenzhou which is a copy of Soyuz?

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NASA monitors the other side of the globe where ISRO doesn't have much presence...but obviously you couldn't figure it out because Chinese still believe the earth is flat. No surprise there.

ISRO released high-res pics, circulated among the more technical forums on the internet...maybe the chinese govt had censored what you see to preserve your false pride...maybe you just have a blurry monitor made by some third-grade chinese company...or maybe you've never been there so you have no clue what Mars looks like therefore can't tell the difference between high-res and blur.

No wonder it's all blurry for you.

Read the article carefully again.

vallesmarineris.jpg

eoschaos.jpg

marsmoonphobos.jpg


Have some more blurry images of mars.


Tell me more about this Russian made capsule?
Please do not take US pics and claim it as yours. This is Indian mars probe pic.

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Read the article carefully again.


Please do not take US pics and claim it as yours. This is Indian mars probe pic.

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Those pictures are from the Indian mission, they were taken from:

PSLV-C25/Mars Orbiter Mission - ISRO

If you're going to bash the Indians, and you shouldn't their achievement is very impressive:yahoo:(congrats by the way, very impressive work by ISRO!!!), at least make sure you are right before bashing them.

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Read the article carefully again.


Please do not take US pics and claim it as yours. This is Indian mars probe pic.

Please know what you're even talking about before you respond.

Tell me more about that Russian capsule too.
 
So what is the timeline for the manned mission? Is it gonna happen this year?
 
So what is the timeline for the manned mission? Is it gonna happen this year?

Maybe, But so far no selection process has been made for choosing an astronaut. And no training programs that i know of are currently running. So Once that is complete only then we can expect a date. Say next year or 2017
 
Maybe, But so far no selection process has been made for choosing an astronaut. And no training programs that i know of are currently running. So Once that is complete only then we can expect a date. Say next year or 2017

What rocket will India use? Has it been man-rated?
 
Those pictures are from the Indian mission, they were taken from:

PSLV-C25/Mars Orbiter Mission - ISRO

If you're going to bash the Indians, and you shouldn't their achievement is very impressive:yahoo:(congrats by the way, very impressive work by ISRO!!!), at least make sure you are right before bashing them.

:tsk:

Indeed atleast Bash us on proper reasons
 
How long will it take for Pakistanis to understand that the only "space" they will ever see is the one at the bottom pf their keyboards
now that so humiliating
 

It has only one successful launch so far? Then it definitely is not man-rated yet.

India will have to get at least five successful launches in a row before putting humans onboard. There is little chance India can send a man to space before 2020.
 
It has only one successful launch so far? Then it definitely is not man-rated yet.

India will have to get at least five successful launches in a row before putting humans onboard. There is little chance India can send a man to space before 2020.

Not before they send animals into space in that Module. As I mentioned before, there has been no Astronaut Training Program or Selection Program in Process yet. Just 5? I think It would be more than that. I am looking at a time frame of 2018-20. ISRO is very ambitious about this project.
 
What is the status on this project. Will India send a man into space this year?


India to launch its first astronauts into space by 2015 | World news | The Guardian

India has endorsed an ambitious £1.7bn plan to launch its first astronauts into space by 2015, a move seen by many as an attempt to catch up with its bigger neighbour, China, in an emerging Asian space race.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) proposes to put two people into orbit 171 miles above the Earth for seven days – a plan that has been endorsed by the country's top economic policymaking body, the Planning Commission.

"Isro has done an expert job and it needs to be supported," said Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission. The Human Space Flight project is to have two phases: an unmanned flight launched in 2013-2014 and a manned mission the following year.

The Indian cabinet still has to approve the plan but S Satish, a spokesman for Isro, said the support of the Planning Commission "was a major step forward".

If the country succeeded, it would become only the fourth – after the US, Russia and China – to send a man into space. But India is not the only Asian country in the new space race – Iran recently announced that it will attempt a manned space flight by 2021.

There is little doubt about India's sense of purpose. Earlier this month, Isro's chairman, Madhavan Nair, unveiled blueprints at an international aeronautical show in Bangalore for the three-tonne space capsule, which would have enough room for a three-person crew.

India is also setting up a training centre for astronauts in the south of the country – and demonstrated it could launch and recover a space capsule that splashed down in the Bay of Bengal in January 2007.

The new mission will not be entirely homegrown. Moscow will help to build the astronaut capsule and select and train the astronauts. An Indian astronaut will also get a "trial run" abroad a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2013. They will be the second Indian in space after Rakesh Sharma, who was part of a joint space programme between India and Russia in 1984.

Analysts have also warned India that it would need to initiate a review of its space programmes, which are primarily civilian in nature, given "the military character and military functions" of China's space programme. Richard Fischer Jr, a senior fellow at Washington's International Assessment and Strategy Centre, told an audience last week in Delhi that India needed to develop new technologies to counter China's growing space power.

The decision to send astronauts into space follows the successful launch last October of India's first unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, which signalled entry into an elite club of nations that have reached the moon. However, some experts have criticised the move, saying space agencies in wealthier parts of the world have eschewed putting man into space.

Gopal Raj, author of Reach for the Stars, a book about the country's rocket programme, said: "This smacks of Isro looking to keep up with China. It's becoming a national prestige issue. I am not sure what you get from astronauts in space. Even the Europeans, who are much richer, have not got manned space flight programmes."

However, Isro says such talk underestimates India's final goals. "We are not doing this because of China [which launched astronauts into space in 2003]. We want to get beyond the moon, which we see as just an intermediate base in the future. For this, you need humans; robots will not be enough."

Others have warned that Isro's budget is expanding at a time when the country faces both an economic slowdown and widespread poverty. An estimated 40% of the world's severely malnourished children live in India, and more than 800 million people live on half a dollar a day in the country.

Isro's budget last week was boosted by 27% to 44.6bn rupees (£611m) – excluding the £1.7bn cost of the manned spacecraft programme.

"India has major issues regarding education, health [and] rural sanitation, and these struggle to get funds," said the columnist Praful Bidwai. "Yet here we are, funding a giant national ego trip when people do not have latrines. It's monstrous ... If the aim is to promote science, why not invest in climate change technologies?"
How the Guardian printing such a illogical news?

Already ISRO pushed the date to 2021.
 

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