{"id":11592,"date":"2018-08-15T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T10:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11592"},"modified":"2018-08-15T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T10:27:02","slug":"india-plans-to-launch-first-manned-space-mission-by-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11592","title":{"rendered":"India plans to launch first manned space mission by 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a>\u00a0announced the country will attempt to launch its first manned space<\/a> mission by 2022.<\/p>\n

Modi made the announcement during a speech commemorating India<\/a>‘s Independence Day on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“India will send into space – a man or a woman – by 2022, before that if possible,” Modi said. “In the year 2022 or, if possible before, India will unfurl the tricolour in space.”<\/p>\n

India would be the fourth country to put a human in space using its own national space programme if it succeeds.\u00a0Russia<\/a>, the United States<\/a>, and China<\/a> are the only countries that have so far successfully done so.<\/p>\n

India’s space programme has a budget of about $1.6bn, less than 10 percent of the US’ and about 15 percent of Russia’s.<\/p>\n

Despite such a small budget, India has made remarkable progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2014, India was the first<\/a> Asian nation to reach Mars on a budget of just $74m, compared with NASA’s Maven Mars mission that had a $671m price tag.<\/p>\n

The Mangalyaan probe reached Earth’s neighbouring planet to collect scientific data and serve as a precursor for future, more advanced missions.<\/p>\n

Modi has often hailed<\/a> India’s space technology, quipping in 2014 a rocket that launched four foreign satellites into orbit had cost less<\/a> to make than Hollywood film “Gravity”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u00a0announced the country will attempt to launch its first manned space mission by 2022. Modi made the announcement during a speech commemorating India’s Independence Day on Wednesday. “India will send into space – a man or a woman – by 2022, before that if possible,” Modi said. “In the year 2022…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}