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Indian Space Research Organisation gears up for Gaganyaan Mission, India’s first manned mission to space.

• The mission will give a thrust to the country’s science and technology capabilities.

 

Gaganyaan Mission

• The first Indian astronaut will be sent to space under the Gaganyaan mission for which work is already underway.
• The second unmanned human spacecraft, ISRO is targeting for July 2021. By December 2021, the first Indian will be carried out by our own rocket to space.
• DRDO signed MoUs with ISRO to offer technologies for the mission, including space food, survival kits for crew, radiation protection equipment and parachutes.
• The ISRO plans to send three astronauts to space for seven days onboard Gaganyaan, a crew capsule, to be launched with the help of Geo-Synchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
• If Gaganyaan is successful, India would become the fourth nation to achieve the feat.
• Two unmanned flights and one manned flight will be undertaken as part of Gaganyaan programme.
• India has signed agreements with Russia and France for cooperation on the Gaganyaan mission.
• The spacecraft is being developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation.
• It consists of a service module and a crew module, collectively known as the Orbital Module.
• Isro’s GSLV Mk III, the three-stage heavy-lift launch vehicle, will be used to launch Gaganyaan.
• The human spaceflight will take 16 minutes to reach the orbit where it will stay for five to seven days.
• The spacecraft will be placed in a low earth orbit of 300-400 km.
• The Indian space agency displayed the Gaganyaan crew model and orange space suits at the Bengaluru Space Expo’s 6th edition earlier this year. The space suit were developed at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram.
• With the ability to hold one oxygen cylinder, the suit will allow the astronaut to breathe in space for 60 minutes.
• The capsule will rotate around the Earth every 90 minutes, and astronauts will be able to witness sunrise and sunset. The three astronauts will be able to see India from space every 24 hours, while they conduct experiments on micro-gravity.
• For its return, the capsule will take 36 hours, and will land in the Arabian Sea, just off the coast of Gujarat.
• ISRO has developed some critical technologies like re-entry mission capability, crew escape system, crew module configuration, thermal protection system, deceleration and flotation system, sub-systems of life support system required for Mission Gaganyaan.

 

Important Information

India’s first man in space Rakesh Sharma, who flew aboard the Soyuz T-11, launched on 2 April 1984, was an Indian Air Force pilot.

 

Source: India Today

 

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