Thiruvananthapuram: The country's first lunar mission would be accomplished within five years, Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) new acting chairman G Madhavan Nair said on September 3.

In his first interaction with media after taking over as ISRO chief, Nair said, "We will have our spacecraft orbiting around the moon in the next five years."

The design activities and experiments for the mission were going on and the ISRO had got necessary approvals from the union government for the project, he said.

PTI