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India’s space program will test a vehicle it expects will soon carry a crew into space in December 2021.
Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh, yesterday provided a written answer to questions posed in the nation’s Parliament and said an unmanned flight is planned for December 2021. A second test is planned for an unspecified time in the years 2022 or 2023, followed by what the minister called “human spaceflight demonstration.”
India’s mission is named “Gaganyaan” and aims to send three astronauts into space atop the GSLV MkIII heavy lift booster that India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully used four times, most recently for its partly successful Chandrayaan2 Moon mission in 2019. The GSLV MkIII’s first flight, in 2014, tested re-entry of a prototype crew module.