New Delhi, December 28: Cabinet has approved the indigenous human spaceflight programme, Gaganyaan. The mission will carry three-member crew for minimum seven days in space at a total cost of Rs 10,000 crores. The programme will include two unmanned flights and one manned flight. Last month, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K Sivan said, 슬롯사이트œThe organisation is trying to make the mission 슬롯사이트œmore and more" indigenous by utilising the facilities available in the country.슬롯사이트�

If Gaganyaan is successful, India will become the fourth nation to achieve the feat. The 슬롯사이트˜Gaganyaan슬롯사이트� mission, proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 15 during an Independence Day speech. The spacecraft is a fully autonomous 3.7-tonne spacecraft designed to carry a 3-member crew to orbit and safely return to the Earth after a mission duration of few orbits and up to seven days. In its first crewed mission, Indian Space Research Organisation's largely autonomous 3.7-tonne capsule will orbit the Earth at 400 km (250 mi) altitude for up to seven days with a three-person crew on board. The crewed vehicle is planned to be launched on ISRO's GSLV Mk III in December 2022.

Meanwhile, India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 will be launched between January and February 2019. Chandrayaan-2 will be ISRO's first inter-planetary mission to land a rover on any celestial body. The rover of India's second lunar mission, costing nearly Rs 800 crore, will be made to land near the yet-unexplored south pole. The ISRO Chief further informed as the mass of Chandrayan 2 has increased to 3.8 ton, GSLV can't launch it, and hence, ISRO has redefined launch vehicle from GSLV to GSLV-Mk-III.

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