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Dr Unnikrishnan Nair, head of the elite Vikram Sarabhai Space Center in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram. Thiruvananthapuram: The Gaganyaan manned space flight mission will launch “Indian astronauts into space from Indian soil on an India-made rocket”, Dr Unnikrishnan Nair, the head of the elite Vikram Sarabhai Space Center in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, told NDTV in a special interview…
February 27, 2024 12:41 pm | Updated February 28, 2024 12:13 am IST – THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Gaganyaan astronaut-designates Group Captain Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap, and Wing Commander Subhanshu Shukla received ‘astronaut wings’ from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: Video grab India on Tuesday announced…
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath has said that ‘Gaganyaan’, the country’s first human space flight programme, is expected to be launched by the end of 2025. The nation will have a space station by the year 2035. The ISRO is already working on Chandrayaan-4 to retrieve samples from the moon, he said…
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Former wing commander and astronaut Rakesh Sharma during the inauguration of a museum, in Kolkata. | Photo Credit: PTI Every astronaut comes back with the realisation about the fragility of earth, the “heaven” that people should stop “ruining” by exhausting its resources, Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to venture into space, said. Mr. Sharma also…
New Delhi: ISRO today successfully launched its unmanned test flight for its first human spaceflight mission – ‘Gaganyaan’ – in the second attempt after the lift-off was briefly put on hold. “The lift off was put on hold initially after ground computer detected non conformance. We could identify it and correct it very quickly,”…
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Gaganyaan Mission LIVE: The stakes are much higher this time because human lives will be involved. Attempting to prepare for every possibility, which is now a part of its ethos, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will carry out an abort test for the human space mission, Gaganyaan, today. A similar fail-safe approach had been…
The test is scheduled to take place at 8 am on Saturday. New Delhi: It’s going to be a flight of failure, which will set up ISRO for success. Attempting to prepare for every possibility, which is now a part of its ethos, the Indian Space Research Organisation will carry out an abort test for…
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ISRO Chairman S. Somanath addresses the 50th Convention of the All India Management Association at the Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, September 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI In a crucial step in India’s ambitious programme to lift its astronauts into space, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will test its crew escape system (CES)…
ISRO has started preparations for unmanned flight tests as part of the Gaganyaan mission. (File) Tiruchirappalli: After the successful Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya L1 mission, India is now looking at human exploration in space. Chandrayaan-3 project director P Veeramuthuvel, while speaking on the Gaganyaan mission, said that a roadmap is there and the launch will be…
ISRO will soon start unmanned flight tests for the Gaganyaan mission. New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today released pictures of the Gaganyaan spacecraft which is set to take humans to space in December 2024. The space agency also said that they will soon start unmanned flight tests for the mission. “ISRO to…
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