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Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on the test flights success. The test validated the crew escape systems capability to move astronauts to safety in case of adverse conditions after launch. Singh also revealed Indias ambitions to establish an Indian Space Station by 2035 and send the first Indian to the moon by 2040.

New Delhi: Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said the successful test flight of the abort mission of the Gaganyaan project has set the stage for the remaining qualification tests and unmanned missions, which would lead to Indias first human spaceflight.

"I could have gone on flying through space forever." -Yuri Gagarin It was April 12th, 1961, or fifty years ago today, that Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to leave Earth -- the ground, the atmosphere, the stratosphere -- and to soar into outer space.

In October 1968, the American human spaceflight program took significant steps toward achieving President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon

For the first time, the Artemis II crew returning to the Moon next year visited the site where the European Service Module is being developed in Bremen, Germany. BELLA RICHARDS explores why this visit was so significant, and how the Artemis programme has been a symbol of global collaboration amid the ongoing tensions on Earth, and in space.

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All systems in LVM3 are re-configured to meet human rating requirements and christened Human Rated LVM3 (HLVM3)

The crew escape system is a critical safety feature of the Gaganyaan mission. It will be used to evacuate the crew in the event of an emergency during launch or ascent.

Indias Gaganyaan mission, the countrys first human spaceflight venture, is set to launch its first test vehicle mission in the next month or two. This mission will validate the crew escape system, marking the first of four abort missions for the Gaganyaan program. The success of this test vehicle mission and subsequent uncrewed missions will determine the timeline for the crewed mission.