Martin FL - 2/11/2006 11:18 AMI think we need to hear more of this sort of thing from China and give the US a motive to push on ourselves.
hoorenz - 1/11/2006 10:40 PM"A training centre — with a zero gravity chamber- too has to be constructed". Wow....
Super George - 1/11/2006 10:57 PMIs this overly hopeful, or could India do this? Will they need NASA help and could NASA make a load of cash from that?
MartianBase - 2/11/2006 1:17 AMI won't say its impossible for India to land a man on the Moon by 2020, but they don't even have a man-rated rocket and they'd want to get their program up to speed quick if they want to play with the big boys in Russia or the USA.
A formal project report will be submitted to the government before the end of the year and trials will start in early 2007.ISRO will conduct a space-capsule-recovery experiment. A 600-kg module, which will be hoisted by a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket, will orbit the earth for a week and splash down in the Bay of Bengal from where it will be retrieved. The experiment will be repeated in 2008.
MartianBase - 2/11/2006 4:17 AMIndia has a wonderful culture, and great people but the government there is usually a mess, large scale poverty, child slavery, cast system....
Chris Bergin - 2/11/2006 9:59 PMBut India won't be seen as a "threat" - we need one of the bad boys to start pushing on this to give the US a reason to push themselves
vt_hokie - 2/11/2006 8:24 PMChina has its share of poverty, and it hasn't stopped them from putting together a manned space program.
MartianBaseIndia was something of a rival during the Coldwar
publiusr - 3/11/2006 5:56 PMThe new GSLV III concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSLV_III
hektor - 7/11/2006 1:35 AMThey are announcing 150 billion rupees over 7 years (2007-14), i.e. 3 billion dollars for this spacecraft. Seems reasonable but would require an increase (100% ?) of the ISRO budget.