This will be India's first mission to the moon.

Chandrayaan-1 will be an unmanned scientific mission. Scientists at ISRO are working hard on plans for this lunar expedition.

What do you think Chandrayaan-1 will look like? What should it look like? What kind of special design does it need?

rediff.com invites all budding space scientists out there to enter this rediff contest and design a spacecraft for this lunar mission.

Sketch your design of the spacecraft's exterior and interior. Scan and e-mail them to us by August 8, 2006, 0900 hours IST.

We will send the 20 best, most realistic and most practical designs to Dr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO, who will choose the top five entries.

Five winning designs will win special Rediff Shopping vouchers worth Rs 10,000 each.

The five winning designs and the other shortlisted entries will be published on rediff.com

So hit the drawing board folks!

E-mail your designs to mymooncraft@rediffmail.com

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