India has announced its bid to the fourth nation to put a man in space, and says it\u2019ll put a pair of astronauts into a seven-day low-Earth orbit in 2016.<\/p>\n
According to the International Business Times, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is firming up just what \u201cinfrastructure and facilities\u201d the $2.76bn project will need. These include an new astronaut training facility in Bangalore and a third launch pad at India\u2019s spaceport in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n
ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said the programme\u2019s \u201cspace module\u201d will be ready in four years. He wasn\u2019t giving much away, but said the vehicle would have \u201cextra facilities like entry into crew capsule* and an escape chute\u201d.<\/p>\n
Other technical challenges facing the ISRO include just how to cook up a decent space curry, and it last year tasked the Defence Food Research Laboratory with coming up with a viable zero-grav bhaji to sustain its space pioneers.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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