HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT CENTRE (HSFC)

About:

• Mandate: The Human Space Flight Centre will carry out all activities related to the Gaganyaan Project.
  
  
• HQ:
  
  
• Administration:
  • Unnikrishnan Nair has been appointed as the director of the new centre. Earlier, he led ISRO’s Advanced Space Transportation Programme at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).
    
    
  • Hutton, who helmed the PSLV light lift vehicle programme at the VSSC in Thiruvananthapuram, will be the project director in Dr. Nair’s team and his deputy.
    
    
  
  
  
• Background:
  • ISRO’s announcement of the new centre and the naming of its head comes about five months after the government first unveiled plans to send a manned mission to space.
    
    
  • The nodal Human Space Programme Office set up six months back under V.R. Lalithambika would continue to coordinate mission affairs at the ISRO’s headquarters.