News agencies reports that, “India plans to launch a capsule (Chandryaan-1) into orbit early next year and bring it back to Earth, an initial step towards an unmanned mission to the moon by 2010.” The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch a 50-Kg Capsule and then have it re-enter and splash into the Bay of Bengal after 15 to 30 days of orbit around the earth. It is an expansion in policy from projects meant to aid national development to a growing interest in space exploration. The ISRO is also planning to send an unmanned mission to Mars by 2013 to look for evidence of life. The six-to-eight-month mission, would cost three billion Indian Rupees (~US$67 million).
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