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India Moves To Put Its First Man In Space By 2016

Posted by timothy on from the but-he's-gotta-be-way-too-old dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from the International Business Times: "India plans to launch its first manned space mission in 2016, moving to become the fourth nation to put a man in space. Space scientists and senior officials of the state-run ISRO are preparing a pre-project report to build the infrastructure and facilities for the mission, estimated to cost a $2.76 billion. 'We are planning a human space flight in 2016, with two astronauts who will spend seven days in the Earth's lower orbit,' Radhakrishnan told reporters at ISRO headquarters in Bangalore. In September, India's Chandrayaan-1 satellite discovered water on the moon, boosting India's credibility among established space-faring nations"

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  1. First call center in space scheduled for 2021 by gimmebeer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While in geo-synchronise orbit over every major continent, call center employees will be available to answer your computer questions both day and night.

    1. Re:First call center in space scheduled for 2021 by Psyberian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      7/11 franchises to follow shortly on the space station.

    2. Re:First call center in space scheduled for 2021 by Grishnakh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      when the US is still recovering from the diplomatic and geo-political catastrophe what was the Bush years

      Correction: The US is still mired in a geo-political catastrophe. The Bush/Obama years aren't over yet, and Obama hasn't actually changed anything, and isn't substantially different from Bush.

    3. Re:First call center in space scheduled for 2021 by CannonballHead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The EU is already the world's biggest economy.

      Ah yes. A giant chunk of Europe vs. the US.

      China and India have poverty on the run? Define "run."

      Putting out fires in Mesopotamia? Hmmm. I hate to break it to you, but Iran doesn't just hate the U.S.

      Figuring out HOW to treat people when they're sick? We've got that down. Where to world leaders go to get the best treatment these days? Now, if you're talking about figuring out how to treat EVERYONE when they're sick, then yes. We are trying to figure that out. And doing a very bad job of it, too.

      Stop consuming a quarter of the world's resources? Hmmm... [citation needed]. I'd also like to know how much we produce with those resources in comparison to other countries.

      when the US is still recovering from the diplomatic and geo-political catastrophe what was the Bush years

      Yes, what we need is someone who will do what's best for other countries like Obama has promised. Someone who is willing to work with the UN, seeing how they are looking out for the best interests of us. Someone with a real vision and plan to ... to do something. We're not sure what yet.

      Sarcasm aside, Obama vs. Bush is an interesting one. Bush did not have any of the stage presence that Obama did. And yet it seems that Obama, so far, is mostly stage presence and little else. He does not appear to know how to lead anything but a campaign. And the media eats it up, like all the stories about Mrs. Obama and her garden and all that. And I won't even start with Obama's cabinet and officers and whatnot... Gibbs, and Axelrod, and even Vice President Biden.

      Yes, I think we definitely need a lot of "change" at the moment. More spending and more deficit is probably not the best change right now. Yes, I know, Obama is "cutting" spending at the moment. Barely, it would seem... a few million, possibly a billion, here and there ... while spending billions on other plans. (Example being the CBO just now telling us that oops, that stimulus package price tag was off by about $75 billion... very few media outlets appear to be covering it though, but here's the Washington Times). And cutting spending isn't and hasn't exactly been the rallying cry of the Democratic party. Unfortunately, the same goes for Republicans... at least, not actually cutting. But it seems they spend a lot less in general, and it seems a lot of conservatives are fed up with both parties. Who knows.

  2. wrong project for India by rev_sanchez · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I say they use the Indian rope trick to setup a space elevator. Between the weaving needed for the cable and the hundreds of millions of people with those flute things to lift it, I think they have the technology to make this happen.

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    If you didn't come to party don't bother knocking on my door. Prince '1999'
  3. Normal service will resume shortly by damburger · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do you know what the worlds two biggest economies were 400 years ago? India and China. Do you know what the worlds two biggest economies will be in 50 years?

    Western dominance is an anomaly. We jumped ahead a touch with movable type and steam engines, maintained our lead by force rather than further innovation (the creative minority became simple a dominant minority) and now the historical status quo is being restored.

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    If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
  4. moving reservations into space? by peter303 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Americans break their treaties with Indians again and moving their reservations into space? Greedy oil and mineral companies want all land. Oops, wrong Indians!