SRIHARIKOTA (AP): The Indian Space Research Organisation has set a ‘target’ of achieving the country’s ambitious manned mission to space by 2021, with the first unmanned programme of ‘Gaganyaan’ planned for December 2020, the space agency’s chief K Sivan said Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced in his Independence Day address that India will attempt to send an astronaut to space by 2022 on board ‘Gaganyaan’.
If successful, India would be the fourth nation to achieve the feat.
“The mission team is on track and already the work is going on,” Sivan said after the successful launch of communication satellite GSAT 29 onboard GSLV-MkIII-D2 here.
“The first unmanned mission of Gaganyaan team we are planning for December 2020, to have the first human in space mission by December 2021. This is the target we are setting (for ourselves),” he said. (AGENCIES)
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