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India's ISRO Conducts First Escape Test For Nation's Manned Mission To Space (hindustantimes.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-up-and-away dept.

Earlier this week, ISRO took the first, small but significant step towards realizing human space flight by successfully conducting a test of the Crew Escape System that provides an escape mechanism for astronauts if the launch operation is aborted. From a report: "This is one of the critical technologies for a future human space programme," said K. Sivan, chairman of ISRO. "When you are flying with the humans, if there is something wrong during the launch, this will help them escape to a safe place." Only three countries -- USA, Russia and China -- have human space flight programmes. The only Indian citizen to ever travel to space was fighter pilot Rakesh Sharma who flew aboard Soyuz T-11, a spacecraft of the former USSR in 1984. India does not have a human space flight programme. "ISRO always does research and development activity and develops technologies keeping future needs in mind," said Sivan.

25 comments

  1. I'm sorry what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > Only three countries -- USA, Russia and China -- have human space flight programmes

    Sooooo that ESA is what exactly? Canada would like to have a word with you too.

    More like India still has no "space program", they've stolen so much from NASA.

    1. Re:I'm sorry what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah!

      And why have an escape program? There are over 1.3 Billion of them.

      Tell'em that if they die in space, it's Nirvana. That's what religion is for - manipulating people to do the bidding of the ruling class.

      Cruel? What's more cruel? Bringing a life into a World of hardship and guaranteed pain? Or no life - or stay in a life in Heaven or whatever afterlife belief one may have?

      From whatever religion I have seen, never being born is the BEST option and one should condemn their parents for forcing them to be alive in this shit World - especially for us who have lost the genetic lottery.

    2. Re:I'm sorry what? by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      Stolen from NASA was funding.

      NASA people should be flocking to India so they both can do the fucking job.

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    3. Re:I'm sorry what? by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      Get some ice cream.

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    4. Re:I'm sorry what? by Brett+Buck · · Score: 0

      ESA has done very little useful in space, and certainly no manned space flight on their own.

    5. Re:I'm sorry what? by WindBourne · · Score: 1

      uh no. India has NOT been stealing.

      This is India's work.

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    6. Re:I'm sorry what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Only Chinese steal, India would never steal anything. Proof of this is that they are still working on a toilet system that isn't just copied from somewhere else. Until they do, they will just have to swallow their pride and shit in fields.

    7. Re: I'm sorry what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You mean like in San Francisco ? Oh sorry you Americans just poop in the streets and then create an app to track it

    8. Re: I'm sorry what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As if Americans can create apps, it was outsourced to an Indian. They already had the previous skills from dodging landmines back home, and saw how useful it would be.

    9. Re: I'm sorry what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You know they are homeless people right? Do you think 99% of Indians are homeless too?

    10. Re: I'm sorry what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes. At least they look it.

  2. The USA has ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    ... a space flight programme?

    Oh. I see.

    It's simulators all the way down.

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    1. Re:The USA has ... by apoc.famine · · Score: 2

      Yeah, but we already won the simulator race back in the late 60s. #moonlandinghoax

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  3. I can't wait for the Stackoverflow questions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I have written a code for flying this man in space, but it doesn't work.

  4. yes, but, I think it is too slow by WindBourne · · Score: 1

    Seriously, that is a VERY slow system. As such, I fear that it would be caught in the blast of any rocket, esp. when it is a combination of H2 and solid. Look at how fast Challenger blew up.

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  5. Re:Why? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize it was an actual escape system. I thought it was just so they could pop outside to do jolly old shitty-poo-poos.

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  6. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I mean, not to be rude, but Indians at 1.3 billion are the definition of expendability, why bother with an escape system? It's not that it is going to help with anything anyway...

    Translation: ... not to be rude, but I'm going to be so incredibly rude my grandmother would slap me if she heard me say this and my mother would blush and send me to my room without dinner.

  7. How India did it by AHuxley · · Score: 1

    India started in the 1960's by actually learning the science.
    Funding top experts and ensuring they had the skills needed to advance every decade.
    That their own domestic production lines could design and build what was needed over every stage of new design work.
    Decades of education and study able to work with domestic production lines then has real results.
    A very different way to the UK and its domestic Skynet (satellite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... spending big on US parts.
    That UK engineers did not have the needed funding to work with.
    The US investment in contractors for each short term space project. With US contractors then having to retool for each change in US space policy.

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    1. Re:How India did it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The UK made nuclear weapons, but needs the US's permission to use them. Or they need the US to bail them out when their stuff doesn't work. I don't quite know why have a nuclear weapons program reliant on others albeit it's still politically useful to say you're a permanent UNSC member and have nuclear weapons. Perhaps the US bought itself a nuclear ally. In any way having a space program was correlated to having nuclear weapons. The main exception is Japan but it relied on US nukes stationed in Guam and Korea.

    2. Re:How India did it by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      Re "The UK made nuclear weapons" The Tube Alloys effort saved the UK once https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
      Space was to be the same for the UK but all Skynet as a domestic satellite design did was take ever more to buy into US systems.

      India now has everything ready.

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  8. CaptainDork = fake name massive human fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Your MASSIVE FAIL in this life is you're nothing more than a chattering little do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" online & you know it...

    * Is that the best your "phantasyland FAKE NAME" (for your fake lie of a so-called 'life') can manage?

    When a FAKE NAME do nothing like YOU does better than I have? Then talk (you're all talk & no action)...

    You can't help you're an immature little BUTTHURT no-mind, lol! I blew you away in TONS OF PLACES and easily dust your no-mind bullshit blatherings.

    APK

    P.S.=> The TRUE PRICE of your UNIDENTIFIABLE FAKE NAME do-nothing selves like you that I can ALWAYS CASH IN ON (lol) is that I can use FACT/TRUTH on them to SHATTER their all TOO fragile delusional egos that they actually know A DAMN THING in computing, lol... apk

    1. Re:CaptainDork = fake name massive human fail by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

      Interesting rage you got going there.

      As a psychiatrist, I studied this in premed.

      It's called, "projecting."

      You are posting as Anonymous Coward, which is the highest form of FAKE NAME.

      Your obsession with screen names detracts from the body of work presented by the FAKE NAME.

      I want you to think about registering here at /. so you can enjoy the benefits of self esteem that would make you feel all better and stuff.

      That'll be 5 cents, please.

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  9. So are you amazed? by crimson+tsunami · · Score: 1
    Seems you were wrong again WindBourne.

    No, they said 'factory', NOT 'next factory'. That is a huge difference. And considering that Tesla sells a great deal more cars in Europe than in China, I would be amazed if China comes first. Keep in mind that if a factory is cheap to put in Europe, that he has just as much, if not more, incentive to go with Europe. And with all the gear there, it would be cheap, easy, and fast.

    Tesla has signed an agreement to build a factory in Shanghai