ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will send a human to space for the first time in 2022 with the help of China, information minister Fawad Chaudhry announced on Thursday and Cabinet meeting chaired by PM Khan approved the plan today, the minister was quoted as saying by Pakistani newspaper ‘The News’ An agreement.
An agreement between Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) and a Chinese company has already been signed, Chaudhry said.
The satellites were transported to China as Pakistan lacks the infrastructure to launch objects in the space, the Express Tribune quoted an official as saying.
The same year as India plans to launch its manned space mission.
In his Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an ambitious mission of sending an Indian astronaut to space by 2022, which would make India the fourth nation in the world to do so.
PM Modi said:
"We have resolved that by 2022, when India celebrates 75 years of Independence or maybe even before that, certainly some of our young boys and girls will unfurl the Tricolour in space," Modi said from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 72nd Independence Day.
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