Tamil Nadu: The Indian Space Research
Organisation plans to send two astronauts to space in
six or seven years, ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said Sunday.
"ISRO plans to send two astronauts into space in six to
seven years," he said after launching a mobile telemedicine
unit at Muttom in Kanyakumari district.
He said India, among the leading countries in the world
in space research, is designing the mostmodern satellites in
keeping with latest advances in technology.
These satellites are very helpful in communication and
distance, he said.
Radhakrishnan said the nano satellites designed by
students of Satyabama University, Chennai, would be installed
in the PSLV rocket, to be launched in June or July.
PTI
First Published: Monday, February 22, 2010, 00:17