As ISRO gets ready for the second test flight for its ambitious Gaganyaan mission it will be the first integrated air-drop test of the Gaganyaan Crew Module.
The astronauts were coached at Russia s Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center where Rakesh Sharma the first Indian to go into space in 1984 was also trained.
The Indian astronaut candidates completed their Russian training and returned to India in 2021. And now the team will be training at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, with a goal of mounting a joint effort to the International Space Station in 2024.
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The Gaganyaan project envisages the demonstration of human spaceflight capability by launching the crew from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota into an approximately 400 Km Low Earth Orbit for a three-day mission.