Calcutta News.Net Monday 17th September, 2012 <\/p>\n
India's first human space flight would be delayed further for want of requisite technologies and capabilities, a top space official admitted Monday. <\/p>\n
\"The launch programme of our first manned mission in space is going in a skewed phase. Though we have identified critical technologies for such an ambitious project, we have to build the capabilities for undertaking such a challenging mission,\" Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Radhakrishnan told reporters here. <\/p>\n
The state-run Indian space agency in 2006-07 planned to send a two-member crew into the space orbit for seven days and bring it back safe to Earth by 2014-15 at an estimated cost of Rs.12,400-crore ($2.8 billion). <\/p>\n
\"A human space flight is a complex mission requiring a host of things such as a heavy rocket, re-entry vehicle, space capsule, space suits, environmental control, life support systems and an escape system for the crew at the launch-pad and during the flight to be safe in the event of a mishap,\" Radhakrishnan pointed out. <\/p>\n
The space agency, however, has commissioned pre-project studies for the manned mission with Rs.150 crore grant from the government. <\/p>\n
\"With human life at stake, there is no room for error at any stage of the flight mission. Though we had successfully conducted a 12-day space capsule recovery experiment using a lower-orbit rocket in January 2007, we have to work on a full-fledged project on mission mode for the human space flight at a revised cost,\" Radhakrishnan observed. <\/p>\n
The Indian space agency plans to undertake 58 missions over the next five years during the 12th plan period (2012-17) spanning communication satellites, remote-sensing satellites for earth observation and space applications. <\/p>\n
\"As of now, we do not have a programme to launch a human space flight over the next five years. We are also yet to get approval from the government for the manned mission,\" Radhakrishnan added. <\/p>\n
The proposed missions, however, include Chandrayaan-2, India's second mission to moon, by 2016 after Chandrayaan-1 in 2008. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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