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ISRO cranks up Gaganyaan project
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The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has set up a Human Space Flight Centre to implement Gaganyaan Project
Important Facts
- The Centre will be in charge of all human-related programme at the ISRO, including the Gaganyaan project
- Scientist Unnikrishnan Nair has been named director of the centre. He had earlier led ISRO’s Advanced Space Transportation Programme
- The project director for Gaganyaan will be R Hutton, who is now project director for the PSLV programme
About Gaganyaan Mission:
● Gaganyaan is India’s first Human Space Flight Programme to be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) by 2022.
● The programme will make India the fourth nation in the world to launch a Human Spaceflight Mission. So far, only the USA, Russia and China have launched human spaceflight missions.
● Gaganyaan is India’s first Human Space Flight Programme to be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) by 2022.
● The programme will make India the fourth nation in the world to launch a Human Spaceflight Mission. So far, only the USA, Russia and China have launched human spaceflight missions.
- ISRO also announced the launch of India’s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 in in mid-April 2019
- Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, will be launched on board the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk-3.
- Chandrayaan 2 will orbit around the moon to study its conditions and collect data of its topography, mineralogy and exosphere.
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