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Moon mission launch in Sept.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will launch Chandrayaan-I, India's maiden mission to the moon, in September. In an interview on the sidelights of a seminar here on Thursday, the chairman of Isro, Mr G. Madhavan Nair, said that the final tests have been on to launch the spacecraft to moon. The Chandrayaan-I will be launched atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), India's workhorse rocket with a streak of nine consecutive flawless missions.