India to soon have ‘Bharat Antariksha Station’, aims to land on Moon by…
Live MintUnion Minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday, December 11, shared India's plans to establish its own space station in near future and land an Indian on the Moon too. Speaking at a press conference in Delhi on the achievements of science ministries, Union Minister Jitendra Singh shared India's ambitious space plans said, “We are going to have our own space station, we will be among the first to have that, after the U.S. and one or two other countries." The Union minister also provided updates on India's Gaganyaan mission, India's first human spaceflight program. “And while next year ends, or maybe by 2026, we will have the first Indian human being in space, called Gaganyaan, simultaneously also sending one human being down into the seabed, 6,000 meters deep, which is possibly the maximum depth of the sea,” Jitendra Singh said.