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Gaganyaan: India's maiden human spaceflight venture
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that it will commence unmanned flight tests as a first step to its maiden human spaceflight mission Gaganyaan
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Here's everything you need to know about the mission
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Mission Gaganyaan aims to demonstrate human spaceflight capability by launching a crew of three members to an orbit of 400km for a three day mission and bring them back safely to earth by landing in Indian sea waters
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Multiple precursor missions have been planned for the human space flight mission. The missions include Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT), Pad Abort Test (PAT) and Test Vehicle(TV) flights
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The crewed mission is planned based on the result of the test vehicle and the precursor missions without crew on board
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Owing to human safety, ISRO has been developing various new technologies comprising engineering and human-centric systems
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The test vehicle is a single-stage rocket based on liquid propulsion. The Human LVM3 rocket is identified as the launch vehicle for the Gaganyaan mission
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The LVM3 rocket consists of the solid, liquid, and cryogenic stages. All the systems are re-configured to meet human rating requirements
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