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3 Indians to spend week in space, Govt okays Rs 10,000 cr Gaganyaan plan

  •   Fri, Dec 28 2018 05:13:33 PM

New Delhi, Dec 28(PTI): The Union Cabinet has approved a budget of Rs 10,000 crore for sending three Indian astronauts to space for a minimum of 7 days by 2022 under the indigenous human spacelight programme - "Gaganyaan", Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced at the media briefing on Friday.

With this India will become fourth nation to send man to space after the US, Russia and China.

The announcement of the Gaganyaan project was first made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on India's 72nd Independence Day - his fifth and final address ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

  

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K Sivan had then said it was a "very, very tight schedule but we are committed to meet the PM's deadline. It is not an ISRO mission but a national mission project and we will achieve it."

Prior to the actual launch by 2022, the ISRO will have two unmanned missions, and the spacecraft will be fired using the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III, ISRO chief said.

"We have already developed the technology like human crew module and environment control and life support system. Before undertaking the launch, we will have two unmanned missions," Sivan said.

ISRO hopes to deploy the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV MK III), to send three Indians into space from Sriharikota in the next few years.

India plans to call its astronauts "Vyomanauts" (Vyom in Sanskrit means space).

ISRO is known for its space programme that focuses on projects which matter to the day-to-day lives of people.
  

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Sat, Dec 29 2018

    A paper presented at the 102nd Indian Science Congress on Sunday claims that Indians had mastered aviation thousands of years before the Wright brothers. India's science and technology minister Mr. Harsh Vardhan who was present at the conference claimed that ancient Indian mathematicians discovered the Pythagorean theorem but that the Greeks got the credit. These startling claims come just a few days after prime minister Narendra Modi had called Lord Ganesha who is a part elephant and part human, a product of ancient India's knowledge of plastic surgery.
    According to a presentation by Captain Anand J Bodas, there were 200-foot planes that could fly forwards, backward and sideways and even hover in mid-air during the Vedic age. Bodas claimed the planes, invented by a sage called Maharishi Bharadwaj over 7000 years ago, had up to 40 engines and were equipped for warfare. “Official history only noted that the Wright Brothers flew the first plane in 1903,” but the inventor of the airplane was really a sage named Bharadwaja, who lived around 7,000 years ago.
    1. If 'Vedic planes' are invented in India why the Prime Minister Modi's law minister is approving such a massive budget of Rs 10000 crores instead of the Minister of Science & Technology Mr.Harsha Vardhan?
    2. Is this money is for an election campaign of BJP for the 2019 Lok Sabha of elections in the name of science?
    3. What is the point of slogans like 'Make in India' if we need to learn the technologies of the superpower?
    4. What kind of training one learns about the space research just in 7 days?
    5. When the previous Congress government can develop 'Super Computer' when United State impose a sanction, why Modi's government relying on borough technology?

    Jai Hind

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  • Raj, Mangalore

    Fri, Dec 28 2018

    Indians are tired of waiting for acche din in Modi's India. They will take a chance in space for the opportunity to find acche din.

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  • philip, Udupi /Manipal

    Fri, Dec 28 2018

    Only last left over place to visit to our honourable P.M

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  • Tausif, Mysore

    Fri, Dec 28 2018

    Space is the only place not covered by Modi so far.
    No doubt those three people could be Moti-Shah-Jetli.
    Never no anything is possible here.

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  • Ruben Pinto, Mangalore/Australia

    Fri, Dec 28 2018

    Sub Yatrionko subhkamyan. Even though it is costing a lot of money, space is the new frontier and we nned to support it.

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Fri, Dec 28 2018

    Lakhs of people don't have a shelter to stay. And that much Indian don't have enough food for one time meal. And for 3 person spending Rs 10,000 cr. What a foolishness.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Dec 28 2018

    75 % of Karnataka is in Drought ...

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