New Delhi, Jan. 4 -- In what is set to be India's most ambitious space mission, the centre on Friday, 28 December, put its final stamp of approval on Gaganyaan, India's first manned flight to space which is slated to take off by 2022. A cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the Gaganyaan programme for a seven-day low earth orbit mission, according to a government statement. The decision comes after the announcement by Modi on Independence Day that an Indian would travel to space in an Indian spacecraft by 2022. This would be one of the cheapest manned spaceflights in the world, with the entire mission, including technology development, flight hardware realization and infrastructure, estimated to cost no more than ...