India Plans to Build its Own Space Station, But How Hard Will It Be?

India announced it plans to launch its own space station by 2030. But how hard is it to launch a space station? » Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist In June, the Indian Space Research Organization, or ISRO, announced that it plans to launch its own space station by 2030. This would make India the fourth country to launch a space station that is solely its own, along with Russia, the United States, and China. India is yet to send a human being into space and the country has not released any concrete plans on how it plans to build its station or what it will even look like, but it is an ambitious and admirable goal. From the Soviet Union’s Saylut 1, Saylut 2, and Cosmos 557, to China’s Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2, we dive into what challenges other nations faced while putting their first space stations into orbit on this episode of Elements. #ISRO #Space #Astronauts #Seeker #Elements #Science India Could Be the First to Land on the Moon’s South Pole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhWK_pZrXl4 Read More: India plans to have its own space station https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/13/india-space-station/ "India plans to have its own space station in the future and conduct separate missions to study the Sun and Venus, it said on Thursday, as the nation moves to bolster its status as a leader in space technologies and inspire the young minds to take an interest in scientific fields." Space Station Evolution: 6 Amazing Orbital Outposts https://www.space.com/21051-space-station-evolution-history.html "Space stations provide habitats for humans in space on longer-duration missions." Farewell, Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Meets Fiery Doom Over South Pacific https://www.space.com/40101-china-space-station-tiangong-1-crashes.html "China's prototype space station, whose name translates as "Heavenly Palace 1," met a fiery end in Earth's atmosphere today (April 1), breaking apart and burning up