India has announced it will make another attempt to land on the moon, following a mission that ended in failure last year.
At a news conference Wednesday, Indian Space Research Organization chairman K. Sivan said that the government has approved a third lunar mission. The mission, named Chandrayaan-3 — which means"moon vehicle" in Sanskrit — will include a new propulsion module, moon lander and rover, Sivan said.If successful, India will become only the fourth country to make a soft landing on the moon, after the United States, the former Soviet Union and China.
"The lunar landing attempts form part of India's big space ambitions. The country wants to become a major space player, and put Indian astronauts in space by 2022.On Wednesday, Sivan said the agency was making"good progress" toward its first human space flight mission, and had already selected four astronauts for extensive training.Over the past decade, India has made a number of other steps toward achieving its space ambitions.
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