ISRO Opens Gaganyaan's Human Space Flight Center In Bengaluru

Dhir Acharya - Feb 03, 2019

The Human Space Flight Center, or HSFC, will be responsible for a number of duties, including selecting and training the crew.

Gaganyaan, a manned mission of ISRO is planned to launch in 2021, and now there will be a working space for this mission. In particular, the Indian Space Research Organisation is building a Human Space Flight Center based in Bengaluru.

The Center has lately been revealed by the state-owned space agency, ISRO also stressed that the Gaganyaan is its top priority this year.

Its coming duty is to succeed in launching unmanned flight, including the first one in December 2020 and another in July 2021.

On Wednesday, The new Human Space Flight Centre, HSFC in short, was introduced at the Headquarter campus of ISRO in Bengaluru. The Center was announced by K Sivan, the Chairman and Secretary of ISRO, Space Department, and K Kasturirangan, former Chairman of ISRO.

Notably, according to the space agency, a woman astronaut will participate in the manned space mission.

Besides its responsibility for the entire Gaganyaan program, HSFC will also select and train the crew, plan an end-to-end mission, develop the engineering systems in space for crew survival, as well as design activities to maintain the crew during their space flight missions.

The Union Cabinet has just approved of the space flight program, which will cost a total of Rs 9,023. Other ISRO centers will join hands to help the HSFC develop the first flight of the Gaganyaan.

Gaganyaan, which means “Orbital Vehicle”, is a manned orbital spacecraft of India, supposed to be the foundation of the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme. The crew on this mission will include three people.