OREANDA-NEWS  India plans to send a human spacecraft into space in 2025. This was reported by the TASS newspaper with reference to the head of the Indian Space Research Organization Sridhar Panicker Somnath.

An Indian astronaut is supposed to fly on the Gaganyaan spacecraft. "The country's first manned space flight program is expected to begin by the end of 2025," Somnath said at the award ceremony of the Adi Sankara Trust. He promised that India will have a space station by 2035.

According to him, work is currently underway on the Chandrayaan-4 mission, which involves the delivery of lunar regolith samples to Earth. On August 23, the Indian automatic interplanetary station Chandrayaan-3 made a successful landing on the surface of the Moon, which allowed India to become the fourth country in the world to do so.