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Chandrayaan-3, India s third mission to Moon, is likely to be launched in 2022, ISRO chief K Sivan has said. The COVID-19 lockdown has hit several projects of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) including Chandrayaan-3, which was scheduled to be launched in late 2020, and Gaganyaan, the country s first manned space mission. Unlike its predecessor, Chandrayaan-3 will not have an orbiter. We are working on it. It is the same configuration like Chandrayaan-2 but it will not have an orbiter. The orbiter launched during Chandrayaan-2 will be used for Chandrayaan-3. With that we are working on a system and mostly the launch will be next year in 2022, Sivan told PTI.
orbiting the moon inside their ride home. we went to the moon because we could, because jfk said we should. but people forget we went to the moon because of the russians. it was the soviet union that launched the first satellite into space. it was the soviets who launched the first astronaut, and the u.s. was sent into a frantic scramble. it was called the space race for a reason, and the mission was to beat the russians to the moon. in fact, it still galls a whole lot of space folk and nasa retirees that the russians are these days our only ride into space. we don t have a vehicle to get our own astronauts up to the international space station, where three americans happen to be living right now. we landed on the moon five more times. one mission failed en route. i m pretty sure tom hanks was the commander. and think of this as we leave you. all of our stuff is still up there, untouched, undisturbed, a couple of lunar rovers, some
retirees that the russians are these days our only ride into space. we don t have a vehicle to get our own astronauts up to the international space station where three americans happen to be living right now. we landed on the moon five more times. one mission failed en route. i m pretty sure tom hanks was the commander. and think of there as we leave you. all of our stuff is still up there untouched, undisturbed, a couple of lunar rovers, tripods, some tools and the base portion of six lunar landers. we left six american flags up there. made to look like they re waiving even though there s no air or wind because we thought of that too and nasa sewed a wire frame into each flag. every piece we left up there and every footprint in that dust starting with the first footprint 49 years ago tonight is a monument to an era when it seemed like there was nothing we couldn t do.