Watch: Ahead of Independence Day, India Receives Best Wishes From Space
Union Minister Jitendra Singh said last month preparations for "Gaganyaan" had been completed and that humans of Indian origin would go into space next year.
New Delhi: As India celebrates 75 years of independence, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti sent a video message from space wishing success to the country's space agency, the Indian Space Research Organization. ISRO) about the "Gaganyaan" program - India's first human space mission due to take place in 2023.
"On behalf of ISA, NASA and all international partners, I look forward to ISRO and this organization working on the Getgonian program and preparing to send humans into space. Expand our partnership with ISRO and together. space exploration is the goal of all of us in the future, Ms. Cristoforetti said in a video shared by India's Ambassador to the United States, Taranjit Singh Sandhu.Sandhu shared the post on Vikram Sarabhai's birthday. , the father of India's space program.
In the one-minute 13-second video, Cristoforetti also talks about the joint Earth observation mission between NASA and ISRO, and says the International Space Agency is expanding its partnership with ISRO for expeditions space in the future.
"Expanding our partnership with ISRO and exploring space together is the goal of all of us for future space explorations," she said.
Preparations for "Gaganyaan" have been completed and humans of Indian origin will go into space next year, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said last month.
Minister also announced that mission tests to take place in 2023 will be conducted later this year.
“Next year, one or two people of Indian origin will go into space. Preparation for our `` Gaganyaan` is done. Before that, two tests will be conducted by the end of this year. The first test will be empty and in the second test a female robot (astronaut) will be dispatched named Vyommitra," Singh said in a press conference.
"Based on these two missions, Our astronauts will join the third mission, "brother
With the "Gaganyaan" mission, India aims to become the fourth country in the world to conduct a manned flight mission after the United States of America. , Russia and China.
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