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India Spacecraft For Moon To Take Off Next Year
Kanpur, India (PTI) Feb 15, 2007 The 'mission moon' of Indian Space Research Organisation has been completed and it is expected that the first space-craft (Chandrayan first) would take off on March 30 next year, Associate Professor of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum V. Adimurthi said here today. Adimurthi, who was here to participate in a workshop organised in Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, He said the P.S.L.V. spacecraft would be launched from Sriharikota. Adimurthi said there were many indications that there was enough stock of helium gas in the moon and a main objective of Indian scientists would be to find out its stock as part of India's search for alternative sources of energy. According to Adimurthi, India's next plan would be to set up a space station so that "we could utlise that in future for out scientists and researchers". He said new doors would open after a pact between India and the United States is signed in the field of space research.
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