An Indian astronaut from the Gaganyaan Mission is set to join the International Space Station, marking a significant milestone in Indo-US Space collaboration, Union Minister for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh has announced.
PM Modi bestowed astronaut wings to four astronaut-designates of ISRO's Gaganyaan Mission.
Disclosing this in New Delhi during an interaction with media, Dr Singh said, the uncrewed "Vyommitra" Mission is scheduled for the third quarter of this year while a manned mission “Gaganyaan” is scheduled to be launched next year, that is 2025.
Earlier, Gaganyaan Mission Test Flight Launch was put on hold after ground computers observed an anomaly. The ISRO, however, quickly resolved the issue and the test flight was launched successfully in the second attempt.
Gaganyaan Mission: The inaugural test was scheduled to take off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m.
According to ISRO, the success of this test flight will set the stage for the remaining qualification tests and unmanned missions
Ahead of the 2024 General Elections, the Indian space agency ISRO will launch the first uncrewed test rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) as a part of the Gaganyaan Mission - India's human space mission.
ISRO has been racing against time to spring 'Vikram' back to life and salvage the lander-rover part of the Chandrayaan-2 mission.
Director General of Russia’s ROSCOSMOS and former Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin held detailed high-level talks with National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval on all aspects of the India-Russia space cooperation.
