* Astronomy

Who wants to be India's first woman astronaut?
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is offering an opportunity for women to be a part of the first Indian human flight into space, scheduled for 2014. They could be among the first 2-member crew that ISRO sends up into space. The astronauts will cruise for a week in an orbit 400 km above the Earth before splashing down into the Bay of Bengal.

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