India is keen to fly a woman among the three astronauts who will be sent to space by 2021, a top space official said on Friday.
"We want women astronauts also to be part of the human spaceflight, which we are aiming to achieve by December 2021," the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan told reporters at the space agency's headquarters here.
"We are aiming to launch the human spaceflight by December 2021, so as to achieve the target set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi," ISRO chief said. Three astronauts, who will be sent to space, will be chosen by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and trained by the Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Bengaluru.
via IANS