Thiruvananthapuram. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is working very fast for ‘Gaganyaan’, the country’s first mission to be launched in 2023 and to take humans into space. Interesting details have come to light about the astronaut rescue system and the life packets for each person on this crew.
Dr. Unnikrishnan Nair, Director of ISRO’s Human Space Flight Center (HSFC), Bengaluru, has said in an article that the ‘Crew Module’ will land near the Indian coast in 2023 after completing its week-long mission, and the relatively calm sea The Arabian Sea with weather conditions is the primary option, but the Bay of Bengal is also being considered as another option.
The article titled ‘Indian Human Space Mission’ is published in Manorama Year Book 2022. HSFC was set up in Bengaluru in 2019 by ISRO for affordable human space flight activities and Gaganyaan is the first project. Working of Astronaut Rescue System The test flight and first unmanned mission of Gaganyaan is scheduled to start in late 2022 to recognize the..
The Gaganyaan orbital module consists of two parts – the crew module and the service module – and weighs around 8,000 kg. The orbital module will be launched from a Human Rated Launch Vehicle (HRLV), which is an improved version of the GSLV Mark-3 rocket. Each astronaut in the module will have survival support packets that will help them for about two days. However, ISRO is positive that the astronauts can recover from weightlessness within two hours after the module lands on Earth. Four astronauts selected for Gaganyaan have received space flight training in Russia for about 15 months.
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