Pakistan's Space Agency Wants to Launch Its First Astronaut into Space by 2022

Pakistan said on Thursday it aims to send its first astronaut into space by 2022 and will begin selecting candidates next year.

Neighbour and long-time rival India put its first astronaut into space in 1984 as part of a Soviet-led mission. It launched a rocket, Chandrayaan 2, into space on Monday in an attempt to safely land a rover on the moon, its most ambitious mission yet.

Pakistan’s program announced 50 years after the U.S. Apollo 11 mission put the first man on the moon, marks a new departure after focusing on developing communication satellites.

“This will be the biggest space event of our history,” Science and Technology Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said in a tweet.

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