ISRO to set up Human Space Flight Centre in Challakere, Karnataka

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will establish a Massive Human Space Flight Center in the Challakere in Chitradurga district of Karnataka. For this ISRO has proposed 2,700 crores of the infrastructure plan to construct the facility that will become operational in three years. The center aims is to provide training astronauts within the country, which is currently being provided by Russia. Currently, HSP work is split in Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram and the U.R. Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru. Apart from all this work, Challakere will also host work related to crew and service modules of the spacecraft that carries the astronauts and up to mission control. The HSFC was formally announced in January 2019 and works from a temporary place at the ISRO Headquarters, Antariksh Bhavan.

Gaganyaan

• Gaganyaan is an Indian crewed orbital spacecraft that is intended to send 3 astronauts to space for a minimum of seven days by 2022.
• If India’s Gaganyaan mission is successful, it will become the fourth country after the US, Russia, and China to send humans to space.