{"id":40295,"date":"2019-01-12T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T10:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=40295"},"modified":"2019-01-12T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T10:35:04","slug":"isro-cranks-up-gaganyaan-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-cranks-up-gaganyaan-project\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO cranks up Gaganyaan project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/isro-cranks-up-gaganyaan-project\/article25975552.ece\"><strong>ISRO cranks up Gaganyaan project<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PT Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has set up a Human Space Flight Centre to implement Gaganyaan Project<\/p>\n<p>Important Facts<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Centre will be in charge of all human-related programme at the ISRO, including the <strong>Gaganyaan project<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Scientist <strong>Unnikrishnan Nair<\/strong> has been named director of the centre. He had earlier led ISRO\u2019s Advanced Space Transportation Programme<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>project director for Gaganyaan will be R Hutton<\/strong>, who is now project director for the PSLV programme<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"bluebox\"><b>About Gaganyaan Mission:<\/b><br \/>\n\u25cf Gaganyaan is India\u2019s first Human Space Flight Programme to be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) by 2022.<br \/>\n\u25cf 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.<\/div>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>ISRO also announced the launch of India\u2019s second lunar mission <strong>Chandrayaan-2<\/strong> in in mid-April 2019<\/li>\n<li>Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, will be launched on board the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk-3.<\/li>\n<li>Chandrayaan 2 will orbit around the moon to study its conditions and collect data of its topography, mineralogy and exosphere.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISRO cranks up Gaganyaan project PT Facts News 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.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-cranks-up-gaganyaan-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISRO cranks up Gaganyaan project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704903535},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40295","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}