India plans manned space flight by 2022 BelfastTelegraph.co.uk India will send a manned flight into space by 2022, premier Narendra Modi announced as part of India’s independence day celebrations. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/india-plans-manned-space-flight-by-2022-37217855.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article37217852.ece/f7822/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_5fe430e1-cf01-4e3c-9135-ab573acf6cdf_1 Email India will send a manned flight into space by 2022, premier Narendra Modi announced as part of India’s independence day celebrations. He said India will become the fourth country after Russia, the United States and China to achieve the feat and its astronaut could be a man or a woman. The space capsule that will transport India’s astronauts was tested a few days earlier. Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to travel in space, aboard a Soviet rocket in 1984. As part of its own space programme, active since the 1960s, India … [Read more...] about India plans manned space flight by 2022