Thread: India plans first manned space flight in 2016

So do we get to stick a 'part funded by the UK FCO' sticker on the side?



India plans first manned space flight in 2016

India's space agency is planning the nation's first manned space flight for 2016, if it gets government approval of the project budget, an official said Thursday.

By Muneeza Naqvi, for AP in New Dehli
Published: 11:34AM GMT 28 Jan 2010
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India's maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, which means 'Moon Craft' in ancient Sanskrit Photo: AP

The Indian space research organisation has sought 120 billion rupees (£1.6 billion) to put two astronauts in space for a week, spokesman S Satish said.
The government has already provided a pre-project fund of about four billion rupees (£53 million) allowing the agency to do some initial research on the space flight, he said, adding that ISRO is "hopeful" of getting the entire project approved soon so it can start making full-scale preparations.



In October 2008, India launched Chandrayaan-1, its first satellite orbiting the moon, but had to abandon it nearly a year later after communication links snapped and scientists lost control of the satellite.

Chandrayaan-1 put India in an elite club of countries with moon missions. Similar satellites have been launched by the United States, Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China.

As India's economy has boomed in recent years, it has sought to convert its new found wealth — built on its high-tech sector — into political and military clout and stake a claim as a world leader.

India's neighbor and rival China has been forging ahead in space and in 2003 became the first Asian country to put its own astronauts into space. It followed that in 2008 with its first spacewalk.

India plans to follow the Chandrayaan, which means "moon craft" in Sanskrit, by landing a rover on the moon in 2011.

India began its space program in the 1960s and since 1975 has launched more than 50 remote sensing and communication satellites of its own and 22 for other nations, Satish said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/exp...t-in-2016.html

It'll be good for those poor folks eating soya and supplements on the international space station to get a nice ruby for a change.

When you say "part funded",how big a part are we funding?

So....the govt puts ads on TV telling me/us not to drive those 5 unecessary miles (you know, the ones you waste for fun - perhaps with the car up on bricks) yet they fund ANOTHER COUNTRY'S fuel-powered rocket which will 'go to the moon - which is important. OK?'

Outrage aside - I hope our money was invested in this venture ie an investment from which we will see an inflated return. Perhaps from satellite technology etc. If we will then good. If not then ..... usual outrage.

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

When you say "part funded",how big a part are we funding?

Well, we bung India over £800 million in aid each year.

Now, being as how they are putting men on the moon, there are obviously no poor people in India no more so that FCO aid must be for spaceships rather than wells.

Originally Posted by Alsacien

It'll be good for those poor folks eating soya and supplements on the international space station to get a nice ruby for a change.

No chance feller. The ruby, in the form of a high energy vindaloo, is what's powering the damned rocket to get it off the ground. Nothing but low density popadoms for the baltinauts to eat I'm afraid to say.

Is there no place safe nowadays !!!!!, there will be asylum seekers near the moon soon.

"If you are callings to report that you are findings pieces of space craft press 1. If you have found the space craft press 2. If you are calling to complains about the noise press 3."

2016? About 5 hours and 40 mins to go, they better get cracking.

First Tandoori in space?

How about a name competition for it?

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

When you say "part funded",how big a part are we funding?

According to Hansard & FCO website. In 2009 it was £800m over 3 years.

hmmm, same amount as those Dole over payments.

Originally Posted by C_lfc_25

Is there no place safe nowadays !!!!!, there will be asylum seekers near the moon soon.

But they'll have to wait til the paddys builds some roads up there before they can put their corner shops on it :D

Originally Posted by KnightsofRowallan

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

When you say "part funded",how big a part are we funding?

According to Hansard & FCO website. In 2009 it was £800m over 3 years.

hmmm, same amount as those Dole over payments.

bl00dy is as well!


do u think they did it to curry favour with Indians?

Presume three astronauts in the capsule and another twenty riding on the roof?

Originally Posted by Semper_Flexibilis

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

When you say "part funded",how big a part are we funding?

Well, we bung India over £800 million in aid each year.

Now, being as how they are putting men on the moon, there are obviously no poor people in India no more so that FCO aid must be for spaceships rather than wells.

48% of Indian children are malnourished. There is famine in some parts of the country. The Indian Communist Party is already running some Indian states. Many of the biggest Indian companies pay no tax at all while the government hoses money at 'prestige' projects.

As a popular beat combo once said 'I predict a riot'.