India's first manned space mission by 2022
India will send an Indian man or woman to space on an Indian mission by 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed today in his Independence Day address.
"India's tricolour will fly in space," PM Modi said as he announced India's first-ever manned space mission. PM Modi was speaking at the Red Fort in New Delhi, delivering the annual prime minister's Independence Day address.
The Indian Space Research Organisation currently has a probe orbiting Mars. The space agency previously landed a rover on Moon and has plans to launch another mission to the Moon later this year.
Readers must note that an Indian has gone to space. Rakesh Sharma, an Indian Air Force pilot, is the only Indian citizen to have been to space. Sharma, however, flew onboard a Russian spacecraft on a Russian mission.
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