Why is it in news?
- The Indian Air Force and its arms are fully geared up for supporting the first Indian human space mission of 2022.
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The Human Space Flight Programme or HSP is daunting and throws a different kind of challenge at the IAF.
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IAM will play a key role in human engineering support and the development of the space crew capsule.
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Selection of astronauts would take 12-14 months.
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Indian Space Research Organisation, which is tasked with the mission, also called Gaganyaan, has earlier said its three astronauts will most likely be from among the IAF’s test pilots.
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ISRO has discussed the project with IAF and the astronauts would be selected and trained at IAM and other places once the specific requirements of the flyers are finalised.
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First Indian cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma who went of Soyuz T-11 in 1984 and fellow test pilot and back-up cosmonaut Ravish Malhotra were trained at the IAM and the then Soviet Union during 1982-84.
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Challenge of Gaganyaan is bigger as we are the only nation that decided to send man to space first before experiment with animals ”” which Russia, the U.S., Europe and China did.
Source
The Hindu