The ISRO mission is significant, as it would make India one of the four countries in the world, after Russia, the US and China, to launch a manned space flight.
Bengaluru: India and France announced on Thursday a working group for
Gaganyaan , the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) first manned mission, which was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Independence Day. The announcement was made at the sixth edition of Bengaluru Space Expo, by French space agency president Jean-Yves Le Gall. [caption id=“attachment_5127181” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]![Representational image. AFP]()
Representational image. AFP[/caption] India plans to send three humans to space before 2022. The ISRO mission is significant, as it would make India one of the four countries in the world, after Russia, the US and China, to launch a manned space flight. ISRO and Centro Nacional de Estudios Espaciales (CNES), the French space agency, will be combining their expertise in fields of space medicine, astronaut health monitoring, life support, radiation protection, space debris protection and personal hygiene systems, Gall said. Engineering teams have already begun discussions, and it is envisioned that infrastructure such as the CADMOS centre for development of microgravity applications and space operations or the MEDES space clinic will be used for training of future Indian astronauts, as well as the exchange of specialist personnel, Gall said. ISRO plans to conduct experiments on microgravity through its astronauts. French-Indian space cooperation spans in areas of climate monitoring, with a fleet of joint satellites devoted to research and operational applications, innovation, through a joint technical group tasked with inventing the launch vehicles of the future. The two also have plans to work on Mars, Venus and asteroids. Gall said, “CNES is especially proud to be working on this endeavour alongside ISRO to share the experience it has acquired from the first French human spaceflights to Thomas Pesquet’s Proxima mission, and to hone our own expertise by learning from ISRO’s innovative developments in the field of crew transport.”
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