India considering manned space mission
Bhopal: India is considering a manned mission to space soon, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said Thursday.
"We are seriously considering a manned space mission. But we will first have to study and prepare a report within a year on newer technologies to develop capsules to send men to space and bring them back safely," Nair told a press conference here.
The study report would be sent to the government for approval, he said.
Nair was here in connection with the organisation of the Bharatiya Vigyan Sammelan (BVS), a national science meet scheduled in November.
He said a mission to Mars too was at a theoretical stage.
Nair said that the space agency would soon start 12 village resources centres in Madhya Pradesh that would help provide services like tele-medicine, tele-education and application of remote sensing data.
IANS
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