# space facts: ISRO "2021" MISSION

⧪ Mission Gaganyan

🔺 Planning:-

ISRO is aiming for a manned mission to space in December 2021. This will be proceeded by two an unmanned mission, slated for December 2020 and July 2021.

ISRO got a shot in its arm with the approval of Rs 10,000 crore budget for the human space mission recently.

The Endeavour is to build capacity for 3 people and 7 days. But since this is the first mission, we will have to see how many we can send. Those decisions made me later.

Shivan said that the agency formed a new space flight centre (HSC) which will be headed by senior scientist Unnikrishnan niar. While niar will be the director of the HSC. R Hutton had been named the project director or gaganyan.

K Shivan ( chairman of ISRO )

⇒ Astronaut training:- ISRO chief K Shivan said that astronaut selection and training, which will including the establishment of some new facilities, will also take up the considerable amount of the budget.

Indian astronauts training

:- There is something that needs to be done, and the aspect of the project will use up about 10% of the budget cleared for the human space mission.

:- ISRO is at present in the process of creating a framework for astronaut selection and the IAM is yet to get the specifics. The IAM has already some systems have a place for astronauts selection and training.

⇛ VYOMANAUT:-

:- A person who travels in the space for the Indian space program that called " Vyomanaut "
Its origins are from Sanskrit word " Vyoman " meaning sky, so Vyomnaut crudely means one who travels in the sky {intended meaning is space}.