Gaganyaan project approved: Manned mission by 2022

The  Narendra Modi led NDA Govt Cabinet has approved the Gaganyaan project to send a three-member crew to space for at least seven days, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Friday Dec 28,2018

The proposed mission is expected to cost around Rs 10,000 crore.

The Gaganyaan project was first announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech this year. He had said the mission would be undertaken by 2022.

While the first human space flight demonstration is targeted to be completed within 40 months from the date of sanction, two unmanned flights will be carried out before that.

“The total fund requirement for the Gaganyaan programme is within Rs 10,000 crore and includes cost of technology development, flight hardware realisation and essential infrastructure elements. Two unmanned flights and one manned flight will be undertaken as part of the programme,” said a government statement.

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Gaganyaan is India’s first Human Space Flight Programme to be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) by 2022. The programme will make India the fourth nation in the world to launch a Human Spaceflight Mission. So far, only the USA, Russia and China have launched human spaceflight missions.

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