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The Case against Patanjali by Indian Medical Association and the tone of Judiciary is alarming. We need to look into its historical and global context to fully grasp its ramification.
India has announced its bid to the fourth nation to put a man in space, and says it’ll put a pair of astronauts into a seven-day low-Earth orbit in 2016.
According to the International Business Times, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is firming up just what “infrastructure and facilities” the $2.76bn project will need. These include an new astronaut training facility in Bangalore and a third launch pad at India’s spaceport in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said the programme’s “space module” will be ready in four years. He wasn’t giving much away, but said the vehicle would have “extra facilities like entry into crew capsule* and an escape chute”.
Other technical challenges facing the ISRO include just how to cook up a decent space curry, and it last year tasked the Defence Food Research Laboratory with coming up with a viable zero-grav bhaji to sustain its space pioneers.
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