Preparations for India’s Gaganyaan mission are in full swing. Now Union Minister Jitendra Singh has said that one of the four Gaganyaan astronauts of the Gaganyaan mission will be sent to the International Space Center (ISS) in August. India’s Gaganyaan will be sent to the ISS in August together with the Indian Space Agency ISRO and the US Space Agency NASA.
On Thursday, TMC MP Saugata Roy had asked a question in Parliament, in which Saugata Roy had sought information about the Gaganyaan mission in the Lok Sabha. In response to this question, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology (Independent Charge) Jitendra Singh said that a member of the crew of the Gaganyaan mission will be sent to the International Space Center as part of a joint exercise between ISRO and NASA. This mission involves both space agencies as well as a private company Axiom Space. Recently, ISRO had signed an agreement with Axiom Space for space flight.
Gaganyaan astronauts were introduced in February
The joint mission of ISRO-NASA and Axiom can be launched in August. The astronauts will fly to space from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. In February, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly introduced the four astronauts of the Gaganyaan mission. All four Gaganyaan are top pilots of the Indian Air Force, including Group Captain Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Krishnan, Angad Pratap and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla. Now one of these four Gaganyaan has been selected to be sent to the International Space Center.
The Union Minister also informed that the four Gaganyaan astronauts going to space under the Gaganyaan mission are undergoing training at ISRO’s Astronaut Training Facility Center in Bangalore and they have completed two out of three semesters of training. Gaganyaan mission can be launched next year.
