India, France to collaborate on Misson Gaganyaan
6th September, 2018Category:
Stepping up space cooperation, India and France Thursday inked an agreement to collaborate on Gaganyaan, ISRO’s first human space mission. The announcement was made at the sixth edition of Bengaluru Space Expo by French space agency President Jean-Yves Le Gall.
The two countries have formed a working group for the project. The first step under the MoU is to exchange specialists to work on (space) medicine. Infrastructure such as CADMOS centre for development of microgravity applications and space operations or the MEDES space clinic will be used for training of future Indian astronauts.
India plans to send three humans to space for five to seven days and the spacecraft will be placed in a low earth orbit of 300-400 k m from the earth's surface before 2022. It would make India one of the four countries in the world after Russia, US and China to launch a manned space flight.
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