1.The mission will be formally launched by 2022, and if it is successful, India will become the fourth nation after the USA, Russia and China, to send a human to space.
2.The crew module, in which the three astronauts will leave for space, will be made of 3.7-metre diameter and seven-metre height.
3.The human spaceflight will take 16 minutes to reach the orbit where it will stay for five to seven days.
4.The spacecraft will be placed in a low earth orbit of 300-400 km.
5.The capsule will rotate around the Earth every 90 minutes, and astronauts will be able to witness sunrise and sunset. The three astronauts will be able to see India from space every 24 hours, while they conduct experiments on micro-gravity.
6.Isro will receive assistance from the French space agency CNES, in terms of expertise various fields including space medicine, astronaut health monitoring, radiation protection and life support.
7.According to G Madhavan Nair, former Isro chief: The mission will enable ISRO to achieve higher levels of reliability in launch and satellite technology. It will help in providing employment to 15,000 people and out of them, 861 will be from Isro.
8.For its return, the capsule will take 36 hours, and will land in the Arabian Sea, just off the coast of Gujarat.
9.Thus far, ISRO has spent Rs 173 crore to develop critical technologies to send humans into space. This idea was first mooted in 2008 but left in cold storage due to the global economic crisis and other technology-related setbacks for ISRO.
10.During his speech on August 15, Prime Minister Modi proudly claimed that “an Indian son or daughter” will carry the national flag on this trip.
2.The crew module, in which the three astronauts will leave for space, will be made of 3.7-metre diameter and seven-metre height.
4.The spacecraft will be placed in a low earth orbit of 300-400 km.
5.The capsule will rotate around the Earth every 90 minutes, and astronauts will be able to witness sunrise and sunset. The three astronauts will be able to see India from space every 24 hours, while they conduct experiments on micro-gravity.
7.According to G Madhavan Nair, former Isro chief: The mission will enable ISRO to achieve higher levels of reliability in launch and satellite technology. It will help in providing employment to 15,000 people and out of them, 861 will be from Isro.
8.For its return, the capsule will take 36 hours, and will land in the Arabian Sea, just off the coast of Gujarat.
9.Thus far, ISRO has spent Rs 173 crore to develop critical technologies to send humans into space. This idea was first mooted in 2008 but left in cold storage due to the global economic crisis and other technology-related setbacks for ISRO.
10.During his speech on August 15, Prime Minister Modi proudly claimed that “an Indian son or daughter” will carry the national flag on this trip.
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