India will send manned flight into space by 2022, PM Modi declares in Independence Day speech
(WorldNews Asia)

India will send a manned mission into space by 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Wednesday in a speech to the nation. “India will send into space - a man or a woman - by 2022, before that if possible,� Modi said in a marathon address at the Red Fort in New Delhi for the country’s Independence Day. The astronaut would be “carrying the national flag,� Modi said. The conservative prime minister said that India would be only the fourth country - after Russia......