Modi Announces 'Gaganyaan', India's First Manned Spaceflight by 2022

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech, has announced that India will carry out a manned spaceflight mission by (or before) 2022:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-to-launch-first-manned-space-mission-by-2022-pm-modi/articleshow/65410373.cms





For India, this is as momentous as JFK's speech exhorting Americans to go to the Moon.

The mission will be called Gaganyaan.