New Delhi: Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of an Indian rocketing into space on board a Made-in-India “Gaganyaan” module by 2022, Isro’s chairman Dr K Sivan said his team would be able to meet all technological challenges involved in this ambitious programme earlier than schedule with inputs provided by experts within his organisation, a host of R&D organisations, the academia, and industry, and generate 15,000 job opportunities as well.
“Isro is always ready to meet challenges because of its dedicated team. We will be able to show to the world that our country is scientifically and technologically on par with all advanced nations. We are confident that we can do it ever earlier than 2022 (sending an Indian into space) because some of the technologies are ready and so is the launch vehicle, GSLV-III (to carry the crew into space). We will use GSLV-III vehicle, and carry a three-member crew to an orbit about 300-400 km from the earth. The crew will be in space for about seven days,” he told the media in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
He explained that the journey of Indian crew into space would be preceded by a couple of critical tests like launching the modules twice without the crew to prove the reliability of complex technologies and systems.
