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Very happy that team could detect anomaly, rectify so quick…This is big training for Gaganyaan with Indian astronauts: ISRO chief

India is set to conduct a key test in its ambitious crewed space mission Gaganyaan as early as next month, the project director of the mission R. Hutton told Reuters. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is currently training four astronauts and looking to expand the cohort as it aims for more future manned missions, Hutton said. The Gaganyaan mission is aimed at developing a human-habitable space capsule that will carry a three-member crew into an orbit of 400 km (250 miles) for three days, before returning to safety in a planned splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

India's Gaganyaan mission, the country's 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.

Former PA and newspaper journalist Brian Hutton died suddenly last weekend aged 46.