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- Three of the men will form the crew for the first Gaganyaan mission, expected in 2025. This will see a crewed spacecraft spend three days in orbit at 249 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth.
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Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief K Sivan detailed the country’s first manned mission to space on Tuesday, saying the four men shortlisted for the programme will receive...
While two or three out of the four astronauts will be selected to fly on the first crewed flight, one of the remaining backup astronauts on this mission will fly before the Gaganyaan prime crew on a mission to the ISS aboard Ax-4 in early 2024, as the second Indian astronaut in space after Rakesh Sharma, though the plan is yet to be finalized ...
The mission is planned to demonstrate human spaceflight capability by sending a crew to an orbit of 400km of altitude [1] [2] [3] for 7 days. [4] Reporting in January 2020 for the Hindustan Times, [5] Anonna Dutt quotes K. Sivan, then chairman of ISRO, as saying, We are designing the mission for three people to go to low earth orbit for seven days.
Feb 27, 2024 · Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap, and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla are India’s astronauts-designate for Gaganyaan, India’s first crewed space mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Tuesday.
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Oct 20, 2023 · India's space agency has carried out the first in a series of tests flights ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025. The Gaganyaan spacecraft was launched at 10:00...
Feb 28, 2024 · Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed the names of the astronauts selected for India's first crewed space mission. Here's a low-down on the programme, the chosen astronauts, their...
