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India is planning to hoist the tricolour on the moon by 2020, a ISRO official said, adding that the country's first manned flight into space was also on cards by 2015. K. Radhakrishnan, member of the Space Commission and director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space...

The Indian tri-colour adorned the surface of Moon at 8.31pm on Friday when the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) crash landed successfully on the south pole of Earth’s nearest cosmic neighbour, making India only the fourth country in the world to ever touch base with it. Source ...

Congratulate Team ISRO for the successful launch of Chandrayaan India's first unmanned flight to the moon blasted off from Sriharikota, off the Andhra Pradesh coast, early morning on Wednesday. The launch was perfect and the space vehicle is now in the orbit, cruising around earth. With this...

by : PTI As India prepares for its first unmanned mission to the Moon next week, ISRO chief Madhavan Nair has said that India is not engaged in a space race with China, stating that the priorities of the two countries are different and there is no competition. Chandrayaan-1, the country's...

Forum to discuss India's second Moon Mission, chandrayaan-2

The lunar craft to be used in India's first unmanned mission to the Moon > Chandrayaan-I < successfully passed a test for its endurance in harsh space environment crossing a major milestone in preparation for the odyssey expected some time next month. The two-week vacuum test to evaluate the...