{"id":264987,"date":"2023-10-18T19:42:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=264987"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:12:03","slug":"pm-directs-isro-to-land-man-on-moon-by-2040-work-towards-interplanetary-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-directs-isro-to-land-man-on-moon-by-2040-work-towards-interplanetary-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"PM \u2018directs\u2019 ISRO to land man on moon by 2040, work towards interplanetary missions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>PM <\/b><b>\u2018directs\u2019 ISRO to land man on moon by 2040, work towards interplanetary missions\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 18th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister chaired the meeting to assess the progress of the Gaganyaan mission and outline the future of Indian space exploration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the key highlights from the meeting?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Gaganyaan Mission<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is scheduled to be launched in 2025. It aims to d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">emonstrate human spaceflight capability by launching a human crew to an orbit of 400 km and bringing them back safely to earth, by landing in Indian sea waters<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Indian on Moon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: PM has said that ISRO should now plan to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">land an Indian on the moon by 2040.This will strengthen India\u2019s position in the space field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The US is planning to send the first humans to explore the region near the south pole of the moon later this decade, in a mission called <\/span><b>Artemis ll.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 China has also planned to place astronauts on the moon by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Indigenous space station<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0PM has said that India should now aim for setting up \u2018Bharatiya Antariksha Station\u2019 (Indian Space Station) by 2035.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013<\/span> <b>International Space Station<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It has been developed and maintained by the U.S., Russia, Canada, Japan, and European agencies.It is the largest space station.It is expected to be decommissioned by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Interplanetary Missions:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Shukrayaan-1<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is a proposed mission of ISRO.It aims <\/span><b>t<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o study the surface and atmosphere of Venus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Mangalyaan 2:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a proposed second mission to Mars by ISRO.It <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will study aspects of Mars, including interplanetary dust, and the Martian atmosphere and environment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cPM \u2018directs\u2019 ISRO to land man on moon by 2040, work towards interplanetary missions\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 18th October 2023 What is the News? The Prime Minister chaired the meeting to assess the progress of the Gaganyaan mission and outline the future of Indian space&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-directs-isro-to-land-man-on-moon-by-2040-work-towards-interplanetary-missions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM \u2018directs\u2019 ISRO to land man on moon by 2040, work towards interplanetary missions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,1],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-264987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":47,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698309493},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}