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| India has done exceedingly well in area of space research. India is amongst a handful of countries capable of launching their own satellites into orbit. India first launched a satellite into orbit in July 1980 (sixth country in the world to do so). The Indian Space Research Organization builds boosters. India launches rockets from the island of Sriharikota, off its eastern coast. The picture shown on the left, is of a SLV-3 - an experimental satellite launch vehicle. |
| Worldwide Successful Announced Payloads, 1957-2000 Source: NASA |
| Year 1957-59 1960-69 1970-79 1980-89 1990-99 2000 --------- Total: --------- |
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| Russia 6 399 1028 1132 542 35 ---------- 3142 ---------- |
| USA 18 614 247 191 300 29 ------- 1399 ------- |
| Japan - - 18 26 23 0 --------- 67 --------- |
| ESA - 2 5 14 55 12 ------- 88 ------- |
| China - - 8 16 33 5 --------- 62 --------- |
| Frace - 4 14 5 16 0 -------- 39 -------- |
| India - - 1 9 11 0 -------- 21 -------- |
| U.K - 1 6 4 7 0 ------- 18 ------- |
| Germany - - 3 7 6 0 -------------- 16 -------------- |
| Canada - - 4 5 4 0 ------------ 13 ------------ |
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| Memorable moments in human spaceflight include moments when man first landed on the moon. in July 1969 (Americans). But the Russians get the credit for the first space travel in April 1961. As of Oct, 1999 (World Alamanac research), there have been 257 Americans and 94 Russians who have been in outer space. Rakesh Sharma put India in the tenth place for outer space travel after countries like USA, Russia, Germany, Canada, France, Japan, Italy, Bulgaria and Spain. |
| Mission Soyuz TM-4 (Mir) Soyuz TM-2 5 Soyuz TM-27 (Mir) Soyuz TM-26 5 Soyuz TM-11 3 |
| Start Date 21 Dec 87 Feb 87 29 Jan 98 Aug 97 3 Apr 84 |
| Crew V. Titov, Muso Manarov, Anatoly Levchenko Romanenko, Aleksandr I. Laveikin Musabayev, Budarin, Leopold Eyharts Solovyev, Pavel Vinogradov Yury Malyshev, Gennady Strekalov, Rakesh Sharma |
| Duration 8782:39 7835:38 4923:36 4743:35 4365:48 |
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