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Gandhinagar, Gujarat: Indian Space Research Organisation chairman S Somanath said here on Saturday that the astronauts selected for India’s first human space flight programme Gaganyaan are ready and waiting for the flight to happen for the 2025 mission. To subscribe please click tau.id/2iy6f and access our live channel.
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The Gaganyaan programme aims to send four astronauts into space for a three-day mission in 2025 and bring them back safely to Earth. “For the first mission we have selected four of them, and it is our endeavour to send them at least by 2025 to space and bring them back safely.”
Somanath said while addressing graduating students at the 11th convocation of Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU) that, “Bringing them back safely is a very important element of this mission,” ISRO, whose Chandrayaan-3 made a historic landing near Moon’s south pole in August, is working day and night to develop technology to make it happen.
A lot of technology needs to be developed in the coming days to make it possible. And at ISRO we are working day and night to make that happen,” he said. Several technologies for the same have been developed afresh, perfected and made successful in the last few years.
“In the coming days we will see multiple missions without man, and then ultimately the launch of an Indian into space. The astronauts are already ready. They are waiting for the flight to happen. This is one of the important missions that we are looking at,” ISRO Chief said.
India in August joined an elite club of countries to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union and China. ISRO is also looking at making a space station, which is vital for scientific and technological progress and for industries to work in various domains.
“The energy created out of Chandrayaan-3 landing enables us to dream big today. None of our dreams can be small. With every incremental success that we make, our dreams grow bigger and bigger, and it has to be achieved. And it can only be done by young people who are coming into this sector,” he said.
Talking about Chandrayaan-3, Somanath said that India now has the confidence to do “high technology” projects of this class. Somanath said that in 2023, ISRO overcame three past setbacks with the success of Chandrayaan-3, GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) and the small satellite launch vehicle.
