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Indian Moon mission 2008 to carry NASA instrument MIL/Agencies, Sep 30, 2006. Panaji, September 30, 2006 - As per the announcement of Jitendranath Goswami, a scientist with Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory, India's first mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1, would most probably be launched in the first half of 2008. He said that the date for the Indian Space Research Organization's unmanned moon mission will be finalized later as an eclipse is scheduled for February 2008. "The mission will leave just after the eclipse...but for sure it will leave in early 2008," he told reporters yesterday on the sidelines of a lecture organized by the National Institute of Oceanography as per PTI. The mission will study the moon's physical, chemical and physio-chemical properties and its crater history. It is also a remote sensing mission with the objective of micro logical, chemical and geological mapping, he said. "This will be the first attempt to detect emission of low energy gamma rays from a planetary surface," Goswami said. The Rs 400-crore spacecraft will carry two research instrument payloads from abroad -- one from NASA and another from Bulgaria, he said. Asked about collaboration with the US for the mission, Goswami said ISRO is open to such scientific collaborations. "We cannot forget that India had few of its firsts due to the US...we had our first education TV channel because an American satellite was stationed over India," he explained. When asked, Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist from India, Head of SAROUL (Scientific Advance Research of Universe and Life) said that Chandrayaan II could be a reality before 2012 and that would also be a unmanned mission since India would like to be sure about their technicality and the safety of their astronaut being to and fro." Dr. Raj Baldev said, "It is wise to get the help of NASA and that shall be beneficial to both India and USA."
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