BENGALURU: India plans to have a sustained human presence in space and is coming out with a policy framework and a long-term roadmap.
The Department of Space (DoS) has envisaged a national effort to meet the goal of successful demonstration of human spaceflight capability and to achieve the vision of sustained human presence in space.
India's maiden human spaceflight module '
Gaganyaan' will be launched after the second unmanned mission planned in 2022-23, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said last week.
In her Budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said the first unmanned launch is slated for December this year.
The DoS has now put up for public consultation on the website of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which comes under the former, the draft "Humans in Space Policy for India -- 2021" and guidelines and procedures fo ..
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