{"id":285156,"date":"2024-02-29T19:10:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=285156"},"modified":"2024-02-29T19:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:40:18","slug":"gaganyaan-indian-human-spaceflight-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gaganyaan-indian-human-spaceflight-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"GAGANYAAN- Indian Human Spaceflight Programme."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>-This post on <strong>GAGANYAAN- Indian Human Spaceflight Programme<\/strong> has been created based on the article \u201c<strong>Express View on Gaganyaan: Sky\u2019s not the limit<\/strong>\u201d published in \u201c<strong>The Indian Express<\/strong>\u201d on 29 February 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>GS Paper-3<\/strong>&#8211; Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, Robotics, Nanotechnology<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>-The article discusses about India\u2019s most ambitious space programme Gaganyaan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong>&#8211; Prime Minister has recently announced the names of the four astronauts who are undergoing training for the country&#8217;s maiden human space flight mission, Gaganyaan.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is Gaganyaan Mission?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It is a space mission to demonstrate ISRO\u2019s human spaceflight capability by launching a human crew to an orbit of <strong>400 km <\/strong>and bringing them safely back to earth.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is its goal?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>short-term goal<\/strong> is to demonstrate human spaceflight to Low Earth Orbit.<br \/>\nThe <strong>long-term goal <\/strong>is to lay the foundation for a sustained Indian human space exploration programme. Further, India also intends to demonstrate the fact to the world that it is capable of indigenously developing this complex technology.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/private-participation-in-indias-space-sector\/#gsc.tab=0\">Private participation in India\u2019s Space Sector.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the significance of Gaganyaan Mission?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) <strong>Scientific temper-<\/strong> The mission will help in inculcating scientific temper and creativity that will inspire the next generation of students.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Manned Missions-<\/strong>It will help in developing the critical technology for carrying out scientific human space exploration in future.<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Enhanced private participation<\/strong>-The success of the mission will encourage the private sector to invest in space technologies.Recently,the government has allowed 100 % FDI in space sector.<\/p>\n<p>4) <strong>Foster International Collaboration<\/strong>&#8211; India\u2019s technological demonstration will encourage collaboration with like-minded countries for future international space collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How does Gaganyan mission help India to achieve its strategic and economic objective?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on GAGANYAAN- Indian Human Spaceflight Programme has been created based on the article \u201cExpress View on Gaganyaan: Sky\u2019s not the limit\u201d published in \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d on 29 February 2024. UPSC Syllabus&#8211;GS Paper-3&#8211; Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, Robotics, Nanotechnology News-The article discusses about India\u2019s most ambitious space programme Gaganyaan.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gaganyaan-indian-human-spaceflight-programme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GAGANYAAN- Indian Human Spaceflight Programme.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230],"tags":[216,10500,242],"class_list":["post-285156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","tag-science-and-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}