The NISAR project is also to be launched by the end of the year?
By December 2024, US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti has said America will send an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station.
The NISAR project, which is a joint Earth-observing mission between the US space agency NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, is also likely to be launched by the end of the year, Garcetti said.
"We are going to put an Indian astronaut into the International Space Station," he said.
"We promised when PM Narendra Modi came that by the end of this year, we will do this and our mission is on track to be able to go into space," he said.
The US ambassador was speaking on the sidelines of an event to mark the 248th Independence Day of the United States.
He said both India and the US should look at coordinating research and critical emerging technology to leverage each other's strengths increasingly.
The diplomat said India landed 'Chandrayaan 3' on the Moon last year at a fraction of the cost that the US incurred on a similar lunar mission.
"The US has some capacities that India still doesn't have. When the two are combined, both countries have those capacities," he said.
Edited By: Tanvi Walia
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