Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 03: The country's first lunar mission would be accomplished within five years, ISRO's new acting chairman G Madhavan Nair said today. In his first interaction with reporters here after taking over as ISRO chief, Nair said, "We will have our spacecraft orbitting around the moon in the next five years."

The design activities and experiments for the mission were going on and the ISRO had got necessary approvals from the Union government for the project, he said. Bureau Report