Gaganyaan (Orbital Vehicle) is an Indian crewed orbital spacecraft intended to be the basis of the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme.
PM Modi : "We have decided that by 2022, when India completes 75 years of independence, or before that, a son or daughter of India will go to space with a tricolour [Indian flag] in their hands"".
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is setting up a third launch pad at Sriharikota to undertake the Gaganyaan manned space flight programme, an ISRO official said on Friday. In addition, ISRO is scouting for a location on the western sea coast near Gujarat to set up another launch pad for Small Satellite Launch Vehicles (SSLV).
The Indian space agency has gone on to display the Gaganyaan crew model and space suits at the Bengaluru Space Expo’s 6th edition.
Indian Astronauts Corps (2019 Batch) (L-R) Nair, Krishnan, Prathap and Shukla
Sreedhara Panicker Somanath is an Indian aerospace engineer serving as the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation. Under his chairmanship, ISRO carried out the third Indian lunar exploration mission named Chandrayaan-3
