ISRO Chief On Scoring India's Next Big Space Goal

Chandrayaan 2 may have failed but ISRO chief was resolute about accomplishing his next goal: sending an Indian to space.

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00:00By December 2021, the first Indian will be carried out by our own rocket.

00:30There are questions, what way Gaganyaan is going to be useful for the humans in India?

00:50The human space program, in what way is going to be useful?

00:53Gaganyaan is extremely important for India as it will boost the science and technology

00:58capability of the country.

01:00So that is now the new target for us, we are working and by 2020 December, we are going

01:08to have the first unmanned mission of human space flight and the second unmanned human

01:17space flight, we are targeting for July 2021 and by December 2021, the first Indian will

01:27be carried out by our own rocket, they will be lifted from Indian soil and they will go

01:32to space by December 2021.

01:36This is the target, everybody is working on that.