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Astronauts for Gaganyaan Mission Identified, Training Begins This Month: ISRO

Astronauts for Gaganyaan Mission Identified, Training Begins This Month: ISRO

ISRO chief K Sivan said Vikram lander didn’t land properly due to velocity reduction failure.

By Press Trust of India | Updated: 1 January 2020 15:02 IST

Astronauts for Gaganyaan Mission Identified, Training Begins This Month: ISRO

Photo Credit: ISRO

The training of astronauts for Gaganyaan project will be done in Russia

Highlights

Training will commence from the third week of January in Russia
Four astronauts have been identified for the mission
ISRO working on Chandrayaan-3 and Gaganyaan simultaneously

The Indian Space Research Organisation on Wednesday said the training of astronauts for the ambitious manned mission “Gaganyaan” will commence from the third week of January in Russia. Four astronauts have been identified for the mission, ISRO chief K Sivan said adding the training of astronauts will start from third week of this month in Russia. The work related to Chandrayaan-3 and Gaganyaan was going on simultaneously, he told reporters in Bengaluru.

The ISRO chief also congratulated the Chennai based techie who recently located the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-2 that hard-landed and maintained that it was the space agency's policy not to release picture of the crashed module.

"We know where it crashed and where it is located," Sivan said.

To a question on what went wrong with Vikram lander, he said it was due to velocity reduction failure.
"The velocity reduction failure was due to internal reasons," he said.

Chandrayaan-2 mission was India's first attempt to land on lunar surface. The ISRO had planned the landing on the South Pole of the lunar surface. However, the lander Vikram hard-landed.

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