Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) refuted the recent claims made by media, that it is planning a manned moon mission. The move co...
The move comes after top officials of Indian Air Force’s Institute of Aerospace Medicine (IAM) announced on December 27 in New Delhi that India was planning a manned mission to Moon, and that an MoU was recently signed between the IAF and ISRO for the joint project.
ISRO in a press release said the scope of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed with IAM in 2009 was to carry out to basic research/studies on Human Physiological and Psychological requirements for Human Space Flight crew and augmenting/updating existing facilities at IAM to cater to ISRO's Human Space Flight Programme as a pre project Research & Development activity and said the scope of the MOU between ISRO and IAM does not envisage recruitment of crew for ISRO.
