[FPSPACE] India Wants To Send Man Into Space Ahead Of Further Missions Beyond LEO

[LARRY KLAES]

India Wants To Send Man Into Space Ahead Of Further Missions Beyond LEO

Mumbai, India (PTI) Feb 21, 2007

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is preparing to send a man into 
space to orbit around the earth ahead of its more ambitious plans of moon 
and mars missions in future. "This is a step in the direction of future 
plans of ISRO to send man to the planetary targets like moon and mars," a 
top ISRO scientist told journalists last week.


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