GAGAN-YAAN

Aug. 16, 2018

M Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day speech, announced that India will send ‘Gagan-Yaan’ – a manned spacecraft – to the space by 2022.

About:

  • Gaganyaan is the human space flight programme under which 3 Indian astronauts will go into space by 2022.

  • This will be done by using its own capabilities. A GSLV-Mk III launch vehicle will lift them to their orbit.

  • R. Lalithambika, a specialist in advanced launcher technologies, will lead the project as Director of the Human Space Flight Project.

  • If successful, India would become the fourth nation to conduct a human space flight programme after USSR/Russia, USA and China.

  • In 1984, India’s first astronaut Wing Commander (retd.) Rakesh Sharma orbited Earth as part of a Soviet mission.

Source : All India Radio

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