ISRO to launch 1st manned spaceship in 2013

Moscow: In order to further strengthen its presence in space, India would launch its first manned space flight by sending two astronauts in a Russian spaceship in the year 2013.

According to reports, for this purpose the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is to fund the acquisition of a Soyuz spaceship and train its astronauts by a Russian Commander. According to PTI, the Russian cosmonaut would lead the two-member crew on an independent space flight lasting several days. Quoting Deputy Chief of Russian space agency (Roskosmos) Vitaly Davidov the 'Voice of Russia' radio said the flight of Indian astronauts would not involve a mission to the International Space Station.

In 2008, after the successful launch of Chandrayaan-1, ISRO revealed that India would launch its proposed manned mission to moon by 2015. ISRO had said that it would gear up for the complex and challenging task of the manned mission. "Now, we have a little bit of breathing time, we are looking how we can design a capsule, which can carry two astronauts onboard a GSLV rocket," the former ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair had said.

He further pointed out that selecting the astronauts and training them for the space flight and improving the reliability of the launching system are also complex issues. "Considering all these, we have prepared a project report and this had been cleared by the Space Commission and is awaiting the government approval. Based on this, we will have the first man mission from Indian soil before 2015," Nair had mentioned.

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