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India has chosen the fourth quarter of 2024 to host its first crewed space mission.
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Only three countries - the USA/Russia, China, and the USSR/Russia - have launched crewed missions.
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Yesterday, India's Minister of Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh, revealed the 2024 target in [PDF] an answer to a question posed by the Lok Sabha (India's Parliament).
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Singh described a mission called "G1", which will launch in the third quarter of 2023.
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It will "carry a Humanoid as payload." The mission will also include a test of parachutes.
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G2, scheduled for Q2 2024, will do more of this.
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H1, the crewed flight, will be following in Q4.