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- Indian Prime Minister as part of his 72nd Independence Day speech said that India will send a human to space by 2022 under manned space mission on board ‘Gaganyaan’.
- If successful, India will become fourth nation in the world to send astronaut into space after US, Russia and China.
- Former Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Rakesh Sharma was first Indian to travel to space.
- He was part of the Soviet Union’s Soyuz T-11 expedition, launched on April 2, 1984, as part of the Intercosmos programme.
- Some of the Successfully tested technologies required for human spaceflight programme are,
- In December 2014, experimental flight of GSLV Mk-III was successfully tested.
- It also had successfully tested an experimental crew module, demonstrating re-entry capability.
- In June 2017, the first developmental flight of GSLV Mk-III was successfully conducted.
- In July 2018, the first successful flight of crew escape system was tested.
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