Saturday, August 14, 2004

India contemplates manned mission

India contemplates manned mission

The Calcutta Telegraph reports that the Indian Space Recearch Organization has practice a retreival of a manned space capsule. ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair says that a manned mission is possible in 7-8 years.

Meanwhile, Scaled Composites will be putting on a second manned mission to space on September 29th of this year. Is there any further doubt that government space programs are due for a radical change in approach?

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