India successfully carried out Saturday the first of a series of key test flights after overcoming a technical glitch ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space by 2025, the space agency said.

  • @afraid_of_zombies
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    510 months ago

    It is crazy to me how disorganized technical advancement is. We start doing something, back off, do it again. Someone else reinvents the wheel…

    • @SalamendaciousOP
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      10 months ago

      I hope I live long enough to see some kind of permanent inhabited structure on the moon and a human step foot on mars. Hopefully both will be collaborative international endeavors.

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        I genuinely believe space travel is going to be very cheap in next 50 years. It might be possible by 2070s to be in upper middle class and save for 3-4 years to take a vacation to luxury hotels on the moon, do space walks on the surface, bring back some moon dust for collection, finals of some popular sports happening on moon etc etc.

        • @Zoboomafoo
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          110 months ago

          I hope you’re right, and I hope I live long enough to see it

    • Fluke McHappenstance
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      210 months ago

      When humanity returns to the moon, I’ll be very happy to read a bunch of indian astronaut names. Ad astra per aspera!