 "ISRO Gaganyaan mission gets Cabinet approval along with a Rs 10,000-crore budget")
The Union Cabinet on Friday has given the nod to India’s first manned mission to space and cleared a budget of Rs 10,000 crore for the program known as
**Gaganyaan** . The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will submit a project report to the government in two months and identify a programme manager for the mission, Economic Times
reported. ISRO is considering collaborations with established space-faring nations like Russia or America for training astronauts for the mission. If successful, Gaganyaan will make India only the fourth space-faring nation to have its own crewed mission fly to space – after US, Russia and China. [caption id=“attachment_5549001” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] The mighty GSLV-MkIII will be the rocket modified with a crew module for the astronauts in the manned mission. Image courtesy; ISRO[/caption] ISRO has long since begun preparing to undertake a manned mission but only recently revealed its plans: to send a 3-member crew of Vyomanauts to low-Earth orbit on a historic seven-day trip orbiting Earth in 2022. “India will send into space — a man or a woman — by 2022, before that if possible,” Modi said in
**a marathon address** at the Red Fort in New Delhi for the country’s Independence Day. The astronaut would be “carrying the national flag,” Modi said. Between now and Gaganyaan’s launch in 2021/22, ISRO has roughly 50 launches planned, including the Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon in January 2019.
Big day for @isro as cabinet approves Rs. 10,000 crores for Indias first manned mission to space in 2022 - Gaganyaan. @woman_rednow discusses crucial details with @ankitv.
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