[FPSPACE] China and Russia on Mars in 2010, India on the Moon by 2020

[LARRY KLAES]

China-Russia Mars mission set for takeoff
 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jan 5, 2009 - The first joint Chinese-Russian mission to Mars is set to take off in October and reach the red planet in August 2010, an exploration project designer said. A Russian Zenit rocket will launch a Chinese Yinghuo-1 satellite and a Russian Phobos-Grunt unmanned lander, Chen Changya, chief designer of the China-Russia Mars exploration project, told Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper. ... more
 
http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/China-Russia_Mars_mission_set_for_takeoff_999.html
 
India Touts Plans To Hoist Tricolour On Moon By 2020
 
by Staff Writers
 
Shillong, India (SPX) Jan 05, 2009
 
India is planning to hoist the tricolour on the moon by 2020, a space agency official said here Sunday, adding that the country's first manned flight into space was also on cards by 2015.
 
K. Radhakrishnan, member of the Space Commission and director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said plans were afoot to send a two-member crew into space and orbit around 200 km away from the earth by 2015.
 
He was speaking at the 96th Indian Science Congress here.
 
'This would be the first time that an Indian would travel to space on an Indian spacecraft, which ISRO hopes to build with its own technology,' Radhakrishnan said.
 
http://www.moondaily.com/reports/India_Touts_Plans_To_Hoist_Tricolour_On_Moon_By_2020_999.html
 
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