Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday announced that Pakistan will send its first person to space in 2022.
Taking to Twitter, Chaudhry wrote: “Proud to announce that selection process for the first Pakistani to be sent to space shall begin from Feb 2020.”
“Fifty people will be shortlisted — [the] list will then come down to 25 and in 2022, we will send our first person to space,” he wrote, adding “this will be the biggest space event of our history.”
Proud to announce that selection process for the first Pakistani to be sent to Space shall begin from Feb 2020,fifty people will be shortlisted — list will then come down to 25 and in 2022 we will send our first person to space,this will be the biggest space event of our history
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) July 25, 2019
Speaking to a private media outlet, Chaudhry said that the “Air Force will be the custodian of the selection process,” adding that all around the world pilots are selected for space missions.
The PTI stalwart disclosed that initially 50 pilots will be selected, from which the list will be brought down to 25 and then 10. He added that 10 pilots will be trained and eventually one pilot will be sent to space.
