An Indian on the moon by 2020

After the successful launch of the Chandrayaan, India is now dreaming bigger. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working on a mission to send man to the Moon by year 2020.

ISRO Chief Madhavan Nair spoke exclusively to about India’s plans of its very own Neil Armstrong.Well, If you extrapolate the dates. Yes.Barely a month after India entered the exclusive nuclear club, the ISRO isaiming to land an Indian on the moon.

Nair speaking on the development towards that, said, “We’re developing a capsule to carry humans to space. 2 astronauts are going to the earth’s orbit for a week or so in 2015 and then 5 or 6 more years to send a man to the moon.”

Next could be a mission that could put an Indian man on the moon just like Neil Armstrong unfurling the American flag on the moon in 1969 evoking the kind of pride that was felt when Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to enter space 25 years ago.

We should set our eyes on the moon and that time it might be the Indian tricolour being unfurled.