India plans to establish its own "very small" space station in the next decade.

 

印度计划在下个十年建造自己的“小型”空间站。

 

Indian Space Research Organisation¹ (ISRO) chief K. Sivan said Thursday that the ambitious project would follow a successful launch of a manned space flight scheduled by 2022.

 

"Our space station is going to be very small... useful to carry out experiments," Sivan told reporters in New Delhi.

 

"We are not having a big plan of sending humans on tourism and other things," he added.

 

A space station is capable of hosting crew members for years on end, and provides facilities for experiments and support vehicles to dock.

 

India's first manned space mission -- named Gaganyaan -- is due to take place by 2022, in time to commemorate² 75 of years of the country's independence from Britain.

 

It will have two or three astronauts on a maximum seven-day mission.

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