After the momentous landing on the moon’s south pole, India has now set its sights on more challenging missions—sending humans to space and getting samples from the lunar surface back to earth. Test flights for both the projects are scheduled in the new year.

For Indian scientists it is just not about the moon and beyond. Furthering deep ocean exploration, the country is scheduled to send aquanauts on board the “Samudrayaan”, first to a depth of 500 metres in March, and later, achieve its targetted depth of up to 6,000 metres.