Chandrayaan - indian mission to moon

India is gearing up for the launch of its maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I later this year and government is actively considering sending a man into space, Minister of State in PMO Prithviraj Chavan said on Wednesday.

Integration of 11 experiments -- five Indian and six foreign -- is proceeding satisfactorily and scientists are looking forward to a launch in the third quarter, he said replying to supplementaries in the Lok Sabha.

He said serious studies by scientists are going on to explore possibilities of putting a human into space.

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