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    India Announces Plans For Its First Human Space Mission

    It hopes to become the fourth nation, after the United States, China and Russia, to send people into space. The mission is targeted for 2022.
    by Nell Greenfieldboyce Jan 01, 2020 1 minute
    The India media covers the launch of the solar-powered rover Chandrayaan-2 in September. The goal was a moon landing, but the craft crashed. Another attempt to send a rover to the moon is underway.

    India's space agency says that four astronaut candidates have been selected for its first human mission, targeted to launch by 2022, but they've not been publicly named or identified.

    India hopes to join the United States, Russia

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