New Delhi:
An Indian astronaut, be it a man or a woman, will go on a space odyssey by 2022 on board ‘Gaganyaan’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day address here.
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He said when India celebrates 75th year of Independence in 2022, “and if possible even before, an Indian son or daughter†will undertake a manned space mission on board ‘Gaganyaan’ “carrying the national flagâ€.
Chandrayaan-1 was India’s first lunar probe. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation in October 2008 and operated until August 2009.
Mangalyaan is another Indian space project.
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The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan, is a space probe orbiting Mars since September 24, 2014.
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