Gaganyaan Space Mission

India is on track to perform a significant test for its ambitious crewed space mission, Gaganyaan, as soon as next month, according to the project director, R Hutton. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is presently training four astronauts and has plans to enlarge the group for future manned missions. The Gaganyaan mission’s objective is to create a human-habitable space capsule capable of carrying a three-member crew into a 400 km (250 miles) orbit for three days, followed by a planned safe splashdown in the Indian Ocean.