'ISRO EXPERIMENTING WITH POTENTIAL STRUCTURES FOR LUNAR HABITATION'

NEW DELHI: The Indian Space Research Organisation is experimenting with potential structures for lunar habitation, the government on Wednesday told the Lok Sabha. In a written response to a question in the Lok Sabha, Jitendra Singh, minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office that looks after the Department of Space, said: "The ISRO, along with academic institutions, is doing experimentation on potential structures for lunar habitation," he said. The minister was responding to a question on whether the ISRO has started working on building igloo-like habitats on the lunar surface for potential future missions.