ISRO aims for the stars: Plans space station, missions to Venus and Sun

Isro said the space station would be a small module and underlined that there were no commercial plans for tourism purposes

India plans to have its own space station in the near future as the country’s apex space agency develops a three-pronged approach to expanding its presence in the outer skies. The approach focuses on continuous launch of advanced satellites, missions to other planetary bodies, and having an Indian in space in own spacecraft.

The Gaganyaan programme, India’s maiden mission to take human in space, scheduled for 2022, would be extended to launch the space station, Kailasavadivoo Sivan, chairperson of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), said on Thursday.  A space station is a spacecraft in orbit around the Earth which